GEOGRAPHY
WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE BUILT IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERY CITY-STATE?
Ziggurat
A self-governing city.
THE GOD LIVED IN WHICH PART OF THE ZIGGURAT?
Top
A SYMBOL THAT STANDS FOR A WORD
pictograph
WHERE IS THE FERTILE CRESCENT?
Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq
WHO IS HAMMURABI, AND WHAT WERE HIS LAWS CALLED?
Hammurabi was the king of Babylonia,
His laws were called Hammurabi's Code of Law.
IRRIGATION
A system of controlling water
CUNEIFORM
A Mesopotamian writing system
WHERE IS MESOPOTAMIA ON THE MAP, AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Modern day Iraq,
"Land between the rivers"
WHAT IS A STELE?
A stele was what the Mesopotamians used to write their laws on.
THE BELIEF IN MANY GODS
Polytheism
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF SOMEONE BASED ON THEIR JOB?
status
WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE TWO RIVERS, AND WHAT CAN WE USE TO REMEMBER THEM?
Tigris and Euphrates,
"Are you afraid of tigers?"
WHAT WAS A SCRIBE?
A scribe was a Mesopotamian job where if you were a scribe, you would write down laws on pieces of wet clay or carve into stone.
A MESOPOTAMIAN INVENTION, USED TO TRANSPORT GOODS AND PEOPLE
The wheel
THE CRITICAL ATTRIBUTES OF CIVILIZATION:
Stable food supply, writing, government, the arts, social structure, economy, religion, technology