Geographic Challanges
Name one water problem faced by the people of Mesopotamia?
What is an uncontrollable water supply
How did the Sumerians benefit from the development of the Sumerians use the Persian Gulf for?
What is Trade?
What does Mesopotamia Mean?
What is the land between two rivers
What was the invention in Sumer that helped the farmers plant more crops faster?
What is a plow. Also because they had domesticated their animals the oxen was also part of this magnificent invention for agriculture!
What is a social Structure?
What is the way a civilization is organized?
What was the first thing the Sumerians got really good at?
What is Farming!
How did the Sumerians benefit from the development of the Taurus and the Zagros Mountains for?
What is provided natural barriers/borders; Euphrates and Tigris Rivers flow from the mountains. Depositing well needed silt in the soil.
What is a City-State
What is an early city, that was like a small independent country, with its own laws and government?
What was the name of the invention that helped sumerians keep track of the weather and best times to plant or harvest their crops?
What is the Zodiac Calendar?
What is technology?
What is a Stable food supply?
What is the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes?
What is enough food for all to survive at any given time.
Why was Sumer such a good location for farming?
Where is the Fertile Cresent? Because of the rich silt in the soil provided the nutrients to produce a grand crop.
How did the Sumerians benefit from the development of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
What is the silt, provided water to the crops (irrigation) and fishing.
What is an irrigation system?
What is a way to supply land with water?
Once the villages formed city-states, how did they protect themselves from attacks from neighboring villages?
What is they built defense systems, such as;
higher and stronger walls, moats and mazes around the village
What is a Written Language?
What is Cuneiform?
Sumerians used clay tablets and a pointed reed to scribe or record their crop sales, crop growth, feelings, beliefs, events and sounds.
Pictographs used up to 2000 symbols and Cuneiform used up to 700 characters
What do the Sumerians build to control the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What is an Irrigation system? They built Levee's and gated ditches.
The villages eventually got bigger and were called....
What is a city-state?
What was Sumer?
What is an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
What was Woolley's most famous discovery?
What was discovering the Royal Tombs of UR?
He discovered graves that contained great riches.
The Arts
What is music, dance and decorated tools, weapons, walls pottery etc...
Name the two rivers that Mesopotamia lays between.
What is the Tigris River and the Euphrates River?
Why did the people of the village remain obedient to the king?
What is because the god chose the king. Because they needed to please the god the fully excepted the gods choice of king!
What is silt?
What is fine particles of rock?
What are the three stages that archelogists use when on a mission of discovery?
What is Learn and Plan, Dig and Discover and Preserve, reconstruct and Interpret.
What is religion?
What is Government?
What is religion governed their everyday lives in Sumer? The Ziggurut was their temple of worship.
What is the villagers who controlled the taxes, some jobs, enforced laws, maintained irrigation systems, repaired village properties, lead army...