Mesopotamia Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia between these two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates River
What was built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor gods?
The Ziggurats
what is a dike
City-States were ruled by who?
what are Kings
What were jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, fishers, merchants, traders, artisans, hunters, gatherers
What did the people at the top of the pyramid have?
What was the land called when it was able to produce good crops?
what is fertile
What did the Ancient Mesopotamians believe in?
what is Many Gods (polytheism)
What agricultural achievements did the Mesopotamians create?
Who had control over the surrounding countryside?
what are city-states
What did Mesopotamians trade for?
what is building materials and other food
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
who are kings and priests
What is the land that bordered the banks of a river?
what is floodplains
In Ancient Mesopotamia, What does Polytheism Mean?
what is Believed in Multiple Gods
What was one of the world's oldest laws called?
what is Hammurabi's code
When a group of people has similar incomes and backgrounds.
what is social class
What was something the Mesopotamians traded in the beginning?
what is grain
Who makes up the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
who are craftspeople, merchants, and traders
What bodies of water is Ancient Mesopotamia Between other than the rivers?
The Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, and the Caspian Sea
What are mutual commitments made between human beings or God and a human being?
what is a covenant
Why did the Mesopotamians need to build walls around their villages?
what are they were easy to invade
Powerful empire in Northern Mesopotamia?
what is Assyria
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write / government officials
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, laborers, and enslaved people
What are 2 of the the early city-states of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what is Babylon, Ur, Urik, Sappir, Nippur,
What aspects did Gods control of Ancient Mesopotamian's lives?
ALL aspects
What written language did Ancient Mesopotamians Create?
what is Cuneiform
Who created the oldest code of law?
who was Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire
What is someone called when they go to school to learn to write and become government officials?
what are Scribes
What were the 3 classes of Mesopotamia?
what is upper/middle/lower classes