First Civilizations in Mesopotamia
This is the meaning of the word Mesopotamia.
What is "the land between two rivers"?
These have their own government and are not part of any larger governing state.
What are city-states?
This was the writing system the Sumerian created.
What is cuneiform?
These are the names of the two rivers that makes up Mesopotamia's boundaries.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This is when people worship many gods.
What is polytheism?
These were the official record keepers of Sumer.
Who were scribes?
What is Iraq?
These were large temples whose name means "to rise high".
What are ziggurats?
This is the world's oldest known story.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Because of these small particles of soil, the land was very fertile between the two rivers.
What is silt?
This is what your career most likely would have been if you lived in Sumer.
What is a farmer?
The Sumerians were the first people to make these out of wood carved boards that were clamped together.
What were wheels?
What is 1,000 miles?
Sumer's cities were largely cut off from its neighbors because of these two things.
What are mudflats and scorching deserts?
The Sumerians had a place-value system of numbers based on this number.
What is 60?