Geography
What two rivers is Mesopotamia in between?
Tigris and Euphrates
What letter does religion stand for in GRAPES?
R
A writing system iinscribed in wet clay.
Cuneiform
An independant state that includes a city and it's surrounding territory.
A City-state
A trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
Barter
Where is Mesopotamia?
Pesent day Iraq
What are Ziggurats?
Pyramid shaped brick towers
Divided a minute into __ seconds
60
The first kings were....
Military leaders
Each city-state was a ____ of trade.
center
Mesopotamia is a ___ and ___ region with little rainfall.
Mesopotamia is a hot and dry region with little rainfall.
What does prosper mean?
To gain wealth
Plow moves forward, ____ drops from it.
Seeds
Uruk is the ___ city-state in Mesopotamia.
Uruk is the FIRST city-state in Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia had ____ soil=good crops.
fertile
___ = fine, fertile soil after a flood
Silt = fine, fertile soil after a flood
Priests=super _______ in society!!
Important
Supplying water to crops by building tunnels.
City-states had their own _______ and laws.
Government
They had little ____, ____, and no metal.
Wood, stone
A region of the Middle East that stretches in a crescent shape is the ___.
Fertile Cresent
Sumerians believed __ controlled every aspect of their lives.
gods
Achievements included....
Architechure Art inventions and mathematical solutions.
Earliest law code was issued by which king?
Ur-Nammu
What class are peasent farmers and merchants in?
Middle class.