Geography
The two rivers that boarded Mesopotamia in Southwest Asia.
What is the Tigris River and Euphrates River?
The worship of many gods.
What is Polytheism?
The worlds firs system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
A political unit with a city and the surrounding area.
What is a city-state?
When a civilization has more food than what is needed.
What is a surplus?
A mixture of small rocks and soil.
What is silt?
A pyramid- shaped temple tower.
What is a Ziggurat?
What is the Phoenicians?
Leader that founded the largest empire in the Fertile Crescent during ancient history.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The direct trade of exchange of items without using money.
What is the barter system?
A large region of rich farmland near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
Many kings in Mesopotamia claimed that their authority over their people came from which source?
The Mesopotamian Gods.
The material that the Sumerians made out of copper and tin to produce better weapons and materials than older stone tools.
What is Bronze?
The group of people who were the first to build city- states in Mesopotamia and lived in the Fertile Crescent.
Who are the Sumerians?
An arrangement in which workers specialize in a particular task.
What is division of labor?
The two modern day countries that are located where Ancient Mesopotamia used to be.
What are Iraq and Syria?
The division of society by rank or class.
What is Social Hierarchy?
A mathematical system that divided a year into 12 months and measured the length of months using the moon phases.
What is the lunar calendar?
He made one of the first written law codes in history making him and important figure in world history.
Who is Hammurabi?
Why is purple often associated with royalty in many civilizations not just Mesopotamia?
Purple dye came from sea snails which made it expensive to make so only wealthy people like royals could afford it.
How did people successfully farm in the dry climate of Mesopotamia?
They made canals and used irrigation to transport water from the rivers to their fields.
The group of people that had the most power, status, and wealth in the social hierarchy.
The group at the top of the social hierarchy pyramid.
Helped to transport people and heavy objects over long distances in a shorter amount of time.
What is the wheel?
Name the three protections granted to the Mesopotamians by Hammurabi's Code that still exist in laws today.
Right to a fair trial, right to minimum wage, and innocence until proven guilty.
Why did the Phoenicians depend on trade to improve their economy?
Phoenicia's geography did not include much farmland or natural resources, so they used land and and sea routes near their location to trade across the Mediterranean Sea and Fertile Crescent.