Mesopotamia Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia is between what two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates River
What was built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor gods?
The Ziggurats
What are the manmade wall along rivers that stop flooding called?
canal/dam
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government is known as a what?
City-state
What led to the expansion of jobs in ancient Mesopotamia?
Food surplus
The way a civilization is organized?
Social structure
What is this area of land called?
Fertile Crescent
What did the Ancient Mesopotamians believe in?
Polytheism
What agricultural achievements did the Mesopotamians create? Name 1
Cultivation of soil, irrigation, domesticating
Who was a ruthless king who had a story written about him?
Gilgamesh
What were the jobs in ancient Mesopotamia?
Merchants, artisans, farmers
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
who are kings and priests
What is the name of the modern day country?
Iraq
In Ancient Mesopotamia, what does Polytheism mean?
The belief in multiple gods
What was one of the world's oldest laws called?
Hammurabi's code
Who created the oldest code of law?
Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire
What was something the Mesopotamians traded for?
minerals (metal, gold, silver, tin, lead, copper, and bronze)
Who makes up the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
who are craftspeople, merchants, and traders
What bodies of water are at the top and bottom of Mesopotamia?
Mediterranean sea and the Persian Gulf
The ______ are a part of the social structure of Mesopotamia?
Priest
Why did the Mesopotamians need to build walls around their villages?
Easy to invade
What did the Sumerians create?
The first battle wagon
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, laborers, and enslaved people
What did the flood leave behind?
Fertile soil
Who's duty was it to build and maintain the ziggurats?
King
What written language did Ancient Mesopotamians Create?
Cuneiform
What did the Assyrians create?
The first weapons/body protection out of iron
the first army
What is someone called when they go to school to learn to write?
Scribes
What were the 3 classes of Mesopotamia?
what is upper/middle/lower classes
What is the system called that brought water from the nile to the farms?
irrigation systems
Bonus Geography: What does Mesopotamia mean?
Between two rivers
Cuneiform is based on an earlier, simpler form of writing that used _______?
Pictographs
Name the four major ______ of Mesopotamia and on fact about each (not their kings)?
Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians
BONUS GEOGRAPHY: an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
Sumer
Name the six levels of the pyramid in order from top to bottom?
King, priests, nobles, government officials/scribes, merchants and farmers, slaves