The Middle East
What are the three continents the Middle East covers?
Africa, Asia, Europe
What did ancient humans start doing that allowed them to begin building civilizations?
Farming
Belief in something beyond humans and science, especially a God or gods
Religion
Who is Gilgamesh?
The first superhero invented by Mesopotamians
Who was the person to invent laws that controlled a nation?
King Hammurabi
This is what we call a group of nations that all have something in common.
A region
What were the rivers that made farming and human civilization possible in the ancient Middle East?
Tigris & Euphrates
This is the way people talk to each other or how information is shared.
Language
What is the Royal Game of Ur?
The most popular game of Mesopotamia and our classroom
What was a Mesopotamian temple?
Ziggurat
What are the two things Middle Eastern nations have in common that make them a region?
Religion (Islam) and Arabic (language)
What is "domestication"?
Taming wild plants and animals to grow on farms
A culture's stories, songs, movies, television, paintings, music, and so on.
Arts and literature
What are things we use today that were designed by ancient Mesopotamian astronomers?
Calendars
What was the first system of writing?
Cuneiform
What is Mesopotamia?
The first human civilization
What is division of labor?
When one person in a society focuses on just on ONE job, allowing small societies to grow into big civilizations
The ways people get what they need by exchanging money or items.
Economics
What happens if someone builds a bridge and it breaks under Hammurabi's Code?
She gets sold into slavery and the money goes to the injured.
What happens if a child pushes their parent under Hammurabi's Code?
Their hands get cut off.
In which modern-day nation would we have found the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia?
Iraq
The word "Mesopotamia" is Greek. What does it mean in English?
"Between two rivers"
A culture's holidays, foods, games, rites of passage, superstitions, and secret handshakes
Customs and traditions
What is one of the "Seven Wonders of the World"?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
What are two things we still use today that were created by Mesopotamian mathematicians?
60-second minutes and 60-minute hours