Farming
Kings
Mesopotamia facts
Vocab
Fill-in
100
What is the way farmers water their crops
What is irrigation
100
Code of Hammurabi
What is a code developed by the Babylonian King to deal with crimes
100
means land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia
100
form of writing on clay tablets
What is cuneiform
100
Mesopotamia is also known as
What is the Cradle of civilization
200
What made the Southern region good for farming
Silt
200
Sargon
Who is the Akkadian King who formed the worlds first Empire
200
Long periods of dry weather
What is a drought
200
List 3 contributions Sumerians made in writing, technology and mathematics
What is cuneiform, wheel, 12 mo calendar, carts, sailboat, wood plow, potters wheel, # system based on 60, charted stars, geomerty designed buildingd
300
What is the area of Mesopotamia best suited for farming
What is Southern Mesopotamia
300
"An eye for an Eye!"
What Hammurabi is best know for
300
Mesopotamia began on a plain between what two rivers
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates
300
city that governs itself
What is a city-state
300
Explain the differences in the Northern and Southern Mesopotamia
What is N- enough rain to farm, but rocky earth S- silt makes good for farming, has fertile fields
400
Wheat and Barley
What are the two most important crops in Mesopotamia
400
King Nebuchanezzar
Who is the king who created the hanging gardens
400
What two animals are the most important and what do they provide?
What is sheep- wool and milk and cattle- work, milk, leather, meat
400
belief in more than one god
What is polytheisem
400
Name 4 present day countries that are a part of the Fertile Cresent
What is Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon
500
Farmers produced surplus crops which allowed for _______which led to growth of town and cities.
What is specialization
500
In the later days the Sumerian city- states became what?
What is a monarchy
500
What did Mesopotamians use to control the water supply
What is irrigation and dams
500
World oldest know story/poem- from Suma
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh
500
List the 3 classes and give 2 examples of the people in each
What is Lower- slave,, criminal, debtor Middle- farmer, fisherman, merchant, artisan Upper- king, priest, warriors, govt official
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