Mesopotamia Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia between these two rivers.
What is the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
This building was the temple in each city-state where the gods were worshipped.
What is the Ziggurats?
This technology invented by the Sumerians helped with moving things and farming.
What is the wheel?
This person ruled a city-state.
What is a king?
What were jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, fishers, merchants, traders, artisans, hunters, gatherers
The people at the top of the social pyramid in Mesopotamia.
Who were the priests and kings?
Which ruler created the world’s first empire?
Sargon
This vocabulary word means the land can produce good crops.
What is fertile?
This is the type of religion believed in by the people of Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is polytheism?
This achievement of the ancient Sumerians protected against the flooding rivers.
What is the levee?
Mesopotamia is called this because civilizations began there.
What is "the cradle of civilization?"
What system did the Mesopotamians use to trade instead of money?
Barter System
People honored the gods and goddesses daily for this reason.
What is if the gods and goddesses were not happy, terrible things would happen?
This was the first civilization to form between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Sumer?
This event occurred and would deposit silt that kept Mesopotamian farmland fertile.
What is the rivers would flood?
What is to believe in many gods/goddesses?
This is the world's oldest written code of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Groups of people who do similar jobs or have similar incomes and backgrounds are called this.
What is social class?
When someone was captured or committed a crime they often became this.
What is a slave?
Who makes up the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
who are craftspeople, merchants, and traders
This is how city-states protect themselves in Mesopotamia.
What is they built walls and had armies?
This system brings water to your crops through waterways and ditches.
What is irrigation?
These people were responsible for keeping the gods and goddesses happy.
Who were the priests and priestesses?
This area was surrounded by a wall, included the surrounding villages, and had its own government.
What are city-states?
This empire is known for its fierce warriors and fighting style.
Who were the Assyrians?
Scribes were important members of society because they did this.
They wrote and kept records and kept the civilization organized.
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, laborers, and enslaved people
Three important inventions of the Sumerians.
What are: the wheel, Cuneiform, the plow, the calendar, mathematics based on the #60?
Sumer had this many city-states.
What is 12?
The ancient Mesopotamians believed the gods and goddesses controlled this.
What is ALL of nature and life?
This is the first written language invented by the Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?
Who created the oldest code of law?
who was Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire
This is how long a person studied to become a scribe.
What is 12 years?
This is where the upper-class people would live in the city-state.
What is closest to the ziggurat?
These people were the first to be monotheistic and their writings became the 1st five books of the Bible.
Who were the Hebrews?
This present-day country makes up most of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
These were believed to live at the top of the ziggurat.
What are the gods and goddesses?
This is a large group of people who share a common government, religion, written language, and education and has specialized workers,
What is a civilization?
What is a group of territories under the rule of one city or person called?
An empire
This means "having extra". Civilizations need this to grow and be prepared for food shortages.
What is a "surplus?"
These people made up 80% of the population of ancient Mesopotamia.
Who were the farmers?
This is what the word "Mesopotamia" means.
What is "The Land Between Two Rivers?"