Vocabulary
more than what is needed or used; excess
The most important problem Mesopotamians needed to solve.
What is control of the water supply?
Nutrient rich soil left after flooding
What is silt?
What is the Division of Labor?
A religious site in the form of a pyramid with a rectangular base.
What is a ziggurat?
the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed.
What is government?
We've got blank clay, baby...and we'll write you name.
Who are scribes?
The present day country where Ancient Mesopotamia once existed.
What is Iraq?
These materials were used for coinage and bodily adornment.
What are Gold, Silver, and Copper?
The only people who could speak with god in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Who were the religious leaders?
A system of canals, levees, locks, and dams.
What is irrigation?
A Sumerian invention that tracks floods and created the zodiac.
What is a Calendar?
These physical features gave Mesopotamia its name.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The system of exchanging goods of value..
What is the barter system?
Believing in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
A group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government.
What is an empire?
Wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing system
What is cuneiform?
In the early 1900s archaeologists found a few ancient cities in this part of Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Southern part?
Ways in which Mesopotamians improved their trade
What are overseas and land trade?
The main benefit of flooding.
What is fertile soil?
A Long period of time without precipitation/rainfall
What is a drought?
The development of metalwork allowed for the development of this strong farming tool.
What is a Seeder Plow?
These rules were posted everywhere. If only the people could read them!
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
A wide-hulled craft that allowed the transportation of more goods.
What is a barge?
The first king to conquer another city-state.
Who is King Sargon of Akkadia?
The right or power to control, command, or determine
What is authority?
The people of city-states defended themselves from intruders by building these two things.
What are walls and moats?
An artificial waterway
What is a canal?
The three external regions that Mesopotamians traded with.
What are Greece, India, and Egypt?
The first example of the hero's journey in the form of a written epic poem.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?