Mesopotamia
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
The Sumerian farmers grew different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
Possible answers:
What is wheat, barley, dates, corn?
These are the nomadic people who traveled from place to place in search of food.
Who were the hunters-gatherers?
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 a fertile crescent?
People settled and began communities in this area because of this:
What is it had fertile land to grow crops?
This is the mountain range to the east of the Tigris River.
What is trade?
The ziggurats were built very tall because of this:
What is to connect the heavens and the Earth.
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of this.
What is the gods were angry with them?
Mesopotamia is known as the "Cradle of __________"
What is Civilization?
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is theTigris and Euphrates Rivers?
When people specialize in a particular task or job.
What is a division of labor?
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 protect it from invaders?
Another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
This came just before Mesopotamia.
What are hunter gatherers and farming or the Neolithic Era?
This is the term referring to the taming of plants and/or animals.
What is domestication?
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is Land between Two Rivers?
These are the people in society who lived the closest to the ziggurat in each city/state.
Who were nobles or very important people?
Before these were made, flooding was a common and destructive problems for the early Mesopotamians.
What are canals?
These are the people who led religious services and communicated the desires of the gods.
Who was a priest?