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100
The term watering crops using canals from a water source.
What is irrigation
100
1. Two jobs of people of the upper class:
Who are priests and merchants, governor officials, land owners
100
One of the most important sumerian inventions, this is still used today to transport people and goods
What is the wheel
100
Name two things that Babylonians did to improve their culture.
Built new walls to protect the city and new canals & dikes to improve crops
100
At the very bottom of the Sumer social structure
Who are the slaves
200
These were built to transport water from the river to the crops because mesopotamia didn't get much rain.
What are ditches and canals
200
Economic system created by surplus products.
What is trade
200
Why did Mesopotamia first invent a writing system
Keep trade records or business deals, record laws
200
Used as the medium of exchange > emergence of measurement of currency
What is grain
200
Who was in charge of a city?
Followed leadership of god of the city which was interpreted by a council of leading citizens, or priests, or leaders of the city (i.e. king)
300
A self-governing city that also governs surrounding villages.
What are city-states
300
Sumerian priest-king who was the hero of the world's oldest story.
Who is Gilgamesh
300
They attached this to cattle to make farming easier
What is the plow
300
These people could keep profits and even formed guilds/associations
Who are artisans and merchants
300
Temple built to house Sumerian gods and feed the poor
What is a Ziggurat
400
Mesopotamia is made up of two parts
What is the plateau in the North (flat, high land), the flat plain in the South (relatively low relief)
400
He created and ruled the first Empire:
Who is Sargon
400
We were the first responsible for brewing beer.
Who are women... hear us roar.
400
What city state was the first to dominate the area and culture of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
400
Hammurabi's code was an origin to this concept
What is "an eye for an eye"
500
How did Mesopotamia's floods benefit farmers? Bring misfortune?
open ended: should include the floods brought silt and water for crops. They could come at the wrong time, destroying already planted crops, or they could come on too powerfully, costing lives
500
Describe two aspects of the religion in Mesopotamia.
Polytheistic 3,000 gods and demons Gods represented natural forces Ziggurat is temple Priest-Kings ran government Humans served Gods
500
Changed lifestyles in Mesopotamia in weapons and in daily life (i.e. replaced wooden wheels and applied to horse drawn chariots)
What is iron
500
This mountain range separated Persia from Mesopotamia.
What are the Zargos Mountains
500
This was formed when the idea of owning private land was introduced and people were getting paid unequal amounts
What is class structure