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The word Mesopotamia means…
What is land between two rivers?
The belief in many gods such as Anu
Enlil Ishtar
What is polytheism?
Does Geography impact the lives of people? Give me one example of How Geography impacts the lives of people in Mesopotamia.
The rivers allows for the soil to become very fertile do to the silt which allows farmer to grow a surplus of crops.
This process that was developed by the Sumerians. This is how people successfully farmed in the dry climate of Mesopotamia.
What is irrigation and canals?
Which group of people were the first civilization and built city-states in Mesopotamia?
Who is the Sumerians
Give me 5 inventions from Mesopotamia
Possible answer: Wheel, Irrigation, Plow, Writing, Laws, Sailboat...
The two rivers that surrounds Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Did all civilizations in Mesopotamia call themselves Mesopotamians?
No, they called themselves Sumerians, Akkadian, Babylonians...ext.
Who is Hammurabi
Made one of the oldest written law codes called Hammurabi's Code.
What is the barter system
Trading an item for another item.
Without the Mesopotamian invention of the ______, we may not have cars, bicycles, or even trains.
What is the wheel?
How did irrigation lead to the growth of civilization in Mesopotamia?
What is produce a surplus of crops for food?
Most people in the first city-states in Sumer were ______
What are farmers?
Who is Sargon
What is a king and the first leader to rule an empire.
In the social hierarchy, these people are compared to kings and are leaders in the ziggurats.
Who are priests?
I was one of the most legendary historical figures, I was a heroic priest-king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk. There is a great epic written about me.
Who was Gilgamesh?
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
I created the world’s first empire
Who was Sargon?
This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise.
What is agriculture?
Why Sumerians originally use cuneiform?
keep business records such as taxes.
Why did some Mesopotaminas depend on trade to improve their economy?
Some Mesopotaminas geography did not include much farmland or resources.
What is some of Hammurabi’s Code that still exist in laws today?
What is a right to a fair trial, right to a minimum wage, and innocence until proven guilty