Mesopotamia Geography
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Between two rivers
What written language did Ancient Mesopotamians Create?
Cuneiform
What was Hammurabi the king of?
Babylon
The way a civilization is organized?
Social structure
What does the G in GRAPES stand for?
Geography
What is the area of land that Mesopotamia is in called?
Fertile Crescent
What agricultural achievements did the Mesopotamians create?
Cultivation of soil (plow), irrigation, and domesticating animals
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
who are kings and priests
What does the R in Grapes stand for?
Religion
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia is between what two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates River
What was one of the world's oldest laws called?
Hammurabi's code
What were the jobs in ancient Mesopotamia?
Merchants, artisans, farmers
What is someone called when they go to school to learn to write?
Scribes
What does the A in Grapes stand for?
Achievement
The system of controlling the flow of water to bring it to plants is called...
irrigation
Why did the Mesopotamians need to build walls around their villages?
for protection
What led to the expansion of jobs in ancient Mesopotamia?
Food surplus
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, laborers, and enslaved people
What does the P in Grapes stand for?
Politics
Fine particles of rock and soil that were full of nutrients, brought by floods, and that made the land fertile in Mesopotamia is known as
Silt (fertile soil)
What was built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor gods?
The Ziggurats
An early city that was surrounded by farmland and was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government is known as a what?
City-state
Name 2 inventions by the Mesopotamians
wheel, plow, the sail for a sailboat, and a calendar based on the moon
What does the E in Grapes stand for?
Economics
An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
Sumer
Cuneiform was written on _____________ using ____________ as a writing tool
clay tablets and a stylus made from sharpened reeds
The city center
Farmers could know when a flood was going to happen
What does the S in Grapes stand for?
Social Structure