Vocabulary
Mesopotamia means
What is the land between two rivers?
Due to a lack of natural resources, the people built their houses out of
What is mud?
What are priests?
Extra or more than you need.
Keeping track of things.
What is record keeping?
fine soil deposited by rivers
What is silt?
The rivers provided a way to
What is travel or water the crops?
To protect their cities, Sumerians built
Another word for a ruler
What is a king?
People doing other types of work besides farming.
What are specialized workers?
Some rain, but mostly dry
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The largest and most important building in Sumer
What is a ziggurat?
An advanced form of culture
What is a civilization?
Places where someone could find jobs, trade, large temples for praying.
What are advanced cities?
What is a drought?
Mesopotamians were able to obtain some stone, wood, and metail by
What is trade?
The number of main gods.
What is four?
the belief in may gods and/or goddesses
What is polytheism?
A group of people who have a specific purpose
What is advanced institutions?
A city and the farmland surrounding it.
True or False: The floods of the rivers were unpredictable.
What is true?
Sumerians believed the souls of the dead people went here.
What is the land of no return or the underworld?
The flat land bordering the banks of the river.
What are floodplains?
Finding better ways to do things, like using bronze instead of copper tools.