Geography
What does geography mean?
what the land looks like
What does economy mean?
Buying and selling things
What was their writing called?
Cuneiform
What were the names of the "levels" of society?
Classes
What word means "extra" or more than people need?
Surplus
What body of water was most important to the people in Mesopotamia? (rivers, lakes, or oceans)
rivers
They traded
When did they start writing?
3300 BCE
Who was in the lowest class?
Slaves
Who is a person who is owned by someone and is forced to work with no pay?
A slave
What country is now where Mesopotamia was?
Iraq
Who did the Mesopotamians trade with?
People from far away (Egypt, Pakistan)
What was the name of the stick they pressed into the clay?
Stylus or Reed
Who was in the highest class? (name two)
Kings and priests
What do you call the soil that can grow a lot of things?
Fertile
What were the names of the rivers in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
What did they make their money out of?
clay
What was cuneiform made of? (pictures? letters? shapes?)
pictures
What were the homes made of?
mud bricks
What is the process of taking water to plants far away?
irrigation
Why did they call Mesopotamia "fertile crescent"?
It was shaped like a crescent and the soil was fertile
Explain how farming gave them a surplus, which then allowed them to trade.
(explanations may be different)
Explain how cuneiform was similar or different from our written language today.
(answers will vary)
What were clothes made of? (say both materials)
wool and sheepskin
A person whose job is to copy books
Scribe