Mesopotamia
What is the ABSOLUTE modern-day location of Mesopotamia?
Iraq
How was the climate of Mesopotamia?
Hot and dry
Who was Hammurabi?
A leader of Ancient Mesopotamia. He wrote the first set of written laws.
What is a merchant?
A person who buys and sells things for a living
What is a Bazaar?
An open-air market place. Covered shops where merchants sold goods to people. Merchants sold many kinds of goods there.
What is the RELATIVE location of Mesopotamia?
Mosopotamia is northeast Egypt.
Mesopotamia is northwest (or west) of India
West of Iran
South of Saudi Arabia
Give me 2 other names for the region of Mesopotamia?
Fertile Crescent
The Middle East
the "Cradle of Civilization"
Who was Sargon I ?
The king of Akkadian. He made the world's first Empire!!!
What two natural resources did the Sumarians NOT have?
How did they get these things?
They didn't have WOOD or stones to build buildings with.
They traded for wood / they made mud bricks
Supplying water to land or crops to help plants grow. You dig channels and water flow through them to the crops.
What do I mean when I say, "the physical characteristic of a land"?
the weather, land forms, bodies of water, natural resources
They went by foot, used vehicles with wheels, boats on the Tigris/Euphrates Rivers
Who was Gilgamesh?
A Mesopotamian king. He was the subject of the first story ever written in history called, "The Epic of Gilgamesh".
How did the Sumerians control the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
They built high levees that blocked the water. Then they cut canals to lead the water to their fields so they could(irrigate them). .
cuneiform
Sumerian writing made up of wedge-shaped sign.
Name 3 physical characteristics of ancient Mesopotamia?
The Tigris River, Euphrates River, hot/dry climate, rich/fertile soil, the Zagros Mountains, the Persian Gulf...
Name one way that the invention of cuneiform helped merchants with trade.
1. It helped people keep track of their business deals - they could give receipts.
2. Merchants could get "loans" because they could have a written record of what they owed.
Name the four empire of Mesopotamia!
Akkadian
Babylonian
Assyrian
Neo-Babylonian Empires
what is "siege warfare"?
ziggurat
What are 3 human characteristic of Ancient Mesopotamia?
Ziggurats, bazaars, irrigation, farm lands, city wall, merchants, farmers..
Who did merchants in Mesopotamia trade with?
They traded with far away countries - India and Lebanon.
What are 2 of Hammurabi's laws?
If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye will be taken out.
If a son hits his father, his hand will be cut off.
If a nun drinks alcohol at a tavern...
Name 3 inventions we have from the Ancient Mesopotamians.
The wheel
The sailboat
The plow
Time
The first writing: Cuneiform
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A Sumerian writer. (These were important because very few people learned writing with cuneiform.)