Geography
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
This is a way of supplying water to the land to water crops.
What is irrigation?
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
A group of traders that traveled together.
What is a caravan?
Leonard Wooley let an excavation where and found what?
Ur and the Royal Cemetary
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is theTigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Before these were made, flooding was a common and destructive problems for the early Mesopotamians.
What are canals or dikes/dams?
Why did Sumerians offer up gifts to the gods?
So that the gods would be kind to them
An independent government, walled, and a crop surplus.
What is a city-state?
Formed the Akkadian Empire
Who is Sargon?
The "land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
This allowed for people in early Mesopotamia to pursue specializations.
What is a food surplus?
These are the people who led religious services and communicated the desires of the gods.
Who was a priest?
These people knew how to write and made records on clay tablets.
What are scribes?
List the empires in chronological order:
New Babylonian,Babylonian, Assyrian, Akkadian,
Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, New Babylonian
Most early civilizations were formed near this.
What are rivers?
The Sumerians developed a standard of measurement because..
so the farmers could mark the boundaries of their fields.
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states made of mud bricks.
What is a ziggurat?
A system of writing in which marks are carved into clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Describe the social structure from top to bottom and describe one right a woman had.
TOP: King (family), military leaders & priests
MIDDLE: craft workers, scribes, merchants, and farmers in the middle
BOTTOM:slaves
Women:
Running their household
They would own properties
Run businesses
Divorce cruel husbands
Train to be priests and scribes
A large arc of fertile land that was good for crops to grow.
What is a fertile crescent?
The Sumerian farmers grew different types of successful crops. Name at least two.
Possible answers:
What is wheat (grain), barley, dates, corn?
List 3 specific facts about the Code of Hammurabi
Consisted of 282 laws
Displayed on stone in a public place for all to see
Unfair laws were changed and unclear ones were fixed
Covered all areas of life like family relationships, taxes, land, and business deals, and crime.
Followed the idea of “an eye for an eye” where the punishments fit the crime committed
A system of goverment in which a single ruler has authority.
What is a monarchy?
Describe three things about the king.
Passed on power to his son, appointed officials, had total authority over all things