Vocabulary
Geography
Irrigation & Farming
Trade & Transportation
Miscelleneous
100
An agreed exchange of goods or services between two people is this kind of system.
What is barter system?
100
The two main rivers that make up Mesopotamia
What is the Euphrates and Tigris?
100
A means of controlling water to use for farming
What is irrigation?
100
A lightweight boat used to transport goods by merchants in Mesopotamia.
What is a guffa?
100
The large sea WEST of Mesopotamia. (labeled C)
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
A mixture of soil and rock used for farming in Mesopotamia.
What is Silt?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
The name of the modern day country that now makes up most of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
200
The climate of Southern Mesopotamia or the Middle East.
What is hot and dry (arid)?
200
Items people from Mesopotamia traded with others.(export)
What are wheat, barley, and wood, Oils, grains, and woven textiles?
200
It was the first city-state in Mesopotamia.
What is Eridu?
300
The area known for great farming land.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
It is known as the land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
Part of an irrigation system built along a river to prevent water from flooding plains.
What is embankments (levees)?
300
Animals used to travel with merchants to trade goods.
What are donkeys, oxen, and/or other pack animals?
300
The large country located south of the Euphrates River.
What is Saudi Arabia?
400
A large walled central urban area surrounded by farms.
What is city-state?
400
The body of water that the two rivers in Mesopotamia flow into. (labeled G)
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
The reason why the rivers flood in the spring in Southern Mesopotamia.
What is "due to the melting ice and snow and lots of rain in the Taurus Mountains"?
400
An economic system where social relationships is a factor in deciding how goods are produced and exchanged.
What is traditional economy?
400
The region where most of the early settlements were located in Mesopotamia.
What is southern region or Southern Mesopotamia or near the Persian Gulf?
500
a flat area of land that has a high elevation
What is a plateau?
500
The mountain range north west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Taurus Mountains?
500
An innovative tool created by the Mesopotamians for planting.
What is the seeder plow?
500
Exotic items people brought back from other lands.(imports)
What is wine, spices, precious metals, jewels and timber?
500
Which direction do the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers flow?
__________ to ___________
North to South