Regions in Mesopotamia
Land Between the Rivers
What is Mesopotamia
A form of triangular shaped writing.
What is cuneiform?
Belief in more than one God
What is polytheism?
Exchange of goods without money.
What is bartering?
They were connected with the Gods.
Why priests were considered so important.
The Mesopotamia region that was dryer and hotter.
What is the Southern region?
Person that wrote on the cuneiform.
Temple for the Gods.
What is a Ziggurat?
Two items mixed together made metal stronger.
What is copper and tin?
Seed funnel attached to plows that automatically dropped
What is the plow?
In Mesopotamia the population of a city state was divided by.
What is the social classes?
Cuneiform was written on.
What are clay tablets?
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
The population of a city state was divided by.
What is social classes?
First used for irrigation, potterty milling then the chariot. The chariot was the first concept of personal transportation.
What was the wheel?
A curved region in the Middle East with rich, fertile soil.
What is the fertile crescent?
Number of syllables that were used on the cuneiform?
What are 600 - 1000 syllables.
Exchange of goods from one place/person to another.
What is trade?
The first concept of personal transportation.
What is Chriots?
Large man made channels that carried water across the desert, used for watering crops.
What is irrigation?
An independent state with government and traditions.
What is city-state?
The cuneiform for what three reasons.
What are keeping track of business dealings, keeping track of records, and ideas passed from generation to generation?
Independent state with government and traditions.
What is city-state?
He created the first Code of Laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Hanging gardens that adorned the capital of great Nebuchadnezzar II palace.
What is the Garden of Babylon?