Mesopotamia Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia is between WHAT two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates River
What was built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor gods?
The Ziggurats
The gained knowledge of how to control water and grow food led to people becoming _______, and no longer hunter-gatherers.
Nomadic
The way a civilization is organized?
Social structure
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Between two rivers
What is this area of land called?
Fertile Crescent
Sumerians believed in multiple Gods, this term is known as _____.
Polytheism
What were one of the few jobs in ancient Mesopotamia?
Merchants, artisans, farmers
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
who are kings and priests
To tame an animal
Domesticate
What is the name of the modern day country?
Iraq
What is the OPPOSITE of believing in multiple Gods?
Monotheism
What was the lowest class possible in Mesopatamia
Slave
Kings passed down their power to their oldest son. This was known as ______.
Hereditary power
Because Sumer was a center for trade, it also became a place for _____ ______, where ideas and technology spread.
Cultural Diffusion
The Fertile Crescent is now dry due to large _____ projects that have dried out the rivers.
Irrigation
The oldest written epic
Gilgamesh
How did one become a slave in society?
They were either captured during war or were in debt to someone
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, laborers, and enslaved people
Two of the most important city-states in Sumer were _____ and _____.
Ur and Uruk
Fine particles of rock that made the land fertile in Mesopotamia is
Silt
The only ones allowed inside of Ziggurats?
Priests and priestesses
Name of those who were able to read and write, and kept records and taxes.
Scribes
In Mesopotamia, women could _____ but could not ______.
own property & divorce
Scribes went to schools to read and write called an _____.
Cuneiform was written on ______ using a tool made out of ______.
clay tablets and reed
Gilgamesh was part-____ and the ____ of the city-state, Uruk.
God & King
A very rich and powerful area in southern Mesopotamia, this was a major city-state.
Sumer
Name 2 of the many inventions by the Mesopotamians
The wheel, 60 minute hour, 12 month calendar, astrology, irrigation system, cuneiform writing.
Another name for gods
Dieties