Daily Life
Mesopotamians lived in homes made out of what?
Mud brick.
Who was at the bottom of the social structure?
Slaves
Mesopotamians were the first people to divide time into units of...?
60.
True or False: Mesopotamians believed in many different gods and goddesses.
True.
True or False: Mesopotamians wrote with reeds that were square-shaped.
False.
Why couldn't girls go to school?
Women were not considered equal to men.
Who made the laws in Ancient Mesopotamia?
The King.
Why did scribes use clay to record information?
Paper was not invented yet.
What important figure in Mesopotamia was believed to have been from the City of Gods?
The King.
People who recorded information were called...?
Scribes.
If you went through special schooling to be able to write and keep records, you would be called a...?
Scribe.
Who took care of physical illnesses as well as religious duties?
Priests.
Mesopotamians figured out a way to get water from the rivers to their crops. What was this system called?
Irrigation.
There were gods and goddesses to watch over different jobs, and different elements of daily life, such as gods of the sky, the sun, and gods that watched over the growth of...?
Crops.
Mesopotamian pictographs eventually turned into writing called...?
Cunieform.
True or False: Mesopotamian men and women both kept their hair short.
False! Men and women kept their hair long.
Who worked in the fields besides slaves?
Commoners.
Cunieform writing evolved from...?
Pictographs.
Instead of churches lie we have, Mesopotamian places of worship looked like what?
Step pyramids.
Why is cuneiform significant?
It was the first written language in the history of the world.
Name 3 games/toys Mesopotamian children would have played with.
Spinning tops, board games, dice, jump rope.
Name all 6 social levels in Mesopotamia.
King, priests, scribes, merchants and artisans, commoners, slaves.
What specific group of Mesopotamians invented writing?
Sumerians.
Name 3 duties of a priest.
Religious matters, running schools, and acting as doctors.
The original direction of Mesopotamian writing was...?
Vertical (up and down).