Geography
Mesopotamia means this in Greek.
What is "the land between rivers"?
Rich, fertile soil that was left behind from flooded rivers.
What is silt?
An extra amount of food.
What is a surplus?
The kind of government each city-state had.
What is a monarchy?
A type of writing system that uses characters or symbols formed on clay tablets with a reed or stylus.
What is cuneiform?
The two rivers that Mesopotamia lies between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The reason why Mesopotamia was also called the "Fertile Crescent."
What is a curved strip of land that was good for farming?
This is what people of Mesopotamia were able to do because there was a surplus of food.
What is specialize or do different kinds of jobs?
The religion of the Sumerians.
What is polytheism-belief in more than one god.
People who learned to write documents that recorded everyday life.
What are scribes?
The present day country which Mesopotamia was in.
What is Iraq?
The reason why the rivers were low in the Summer.
What is little to no rainfall.
Two jobs people did in Mesopotamia besides farming.
What are artisans, skilled workers, craftsmen, potters, tool-makers, weapons-makers, jewelry-makers?
Who Sumerian kings believed gave them the power to rule.
What is the city's god.
Two things that scribes recorded.
What are court records, marriage contracts, business dealings and important events?
The body of water the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty out into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The reason why floods happened during the spring.
What is rain and melting snow from the mountains.
This is what a Sumerian city-state looked like.
What is a large stone wall surrounding the city with a ziggurat or palace in the center?
A large temple used as a god's home where only special priests were allowed to visit.
What is a ziggurat?
Two inventions from the Sumerians.
What are the wheel, sailboat, math and geometry, irrigation, calendar, bronze, plow, cuneiform, etc.
This is a geographical feature that all early civilizations developed near.
What are river valleys?
Two things people in Mesopotamia built to tame the rivers.
What are dams and canals?
Two geographical features which caused city-states to be cut off from each other.
What are scorching deserts and mudflats?
The largest class in the social hierarchy of Sumer.
What is the middle class?
Three reasons why the wheel was such an important invention.
What are it made transportation easier, helped with work by pushing or pulling heavy things, and the chariot for warfare?