Meso 1
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
The Sumerian farmers grew different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
What is wheat, barley, dates, corn?
This empire greatly benefited from iron weapons.
Who were the Assyrians?
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
This allowed for people in early Mesopotamia to pursue specializations.
What is a food surplus?
A large arc of fertile land that was good for crops to grow.
What is the Fertile Crescent
People settled and began communities in the Fertile Crescent because of these resources (name two):
Fertile land, water source, protection, mild climate, silt from floods
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf.
What is trade?
Ziggurats were very tall for this reason.
What is to reach the heavens, or to connect the earth and heavens?
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of this.
What is gods' anger?
Mesopotamia is known as the ___________.
What is Cradle of Civilization?
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
When people do a particular task or job.
What is division of labor or specialization?
This is a way of supplying water to the land to water crops.
What is irrigation?
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states made of mud bricks.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamia is found on this continent.
What is Asia?
Sumerian city/states built a large wall around the city for this reason.
What is protection/security?
Another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
Sargon created his empire with these two methods:
What are conquest and agreement?
This is the term referring to the taming of plants and/or animals.
What is domestication?
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is Land between the Rivers?
These are the people in society who lived the closest to the ziggurat in each city/state.
Who were nobles or upper class people?
Before these were made, flooding was a common and destructive problem for the early Mesopotamians.
What are canals, levees, or irrigation ditches?
These are the people who led religious services and communicated the desires of the gods.
Who was a priest?