These two rivers surround the civilization of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
100
This means more than is needed.
What is surplus
100
The flatland bordering a river is this
What is the floodplain
100
Around 3000 B.C, city-states became richer and other groups began to attack them. In such dangerous times, the people of the city-state often asked a powerful man to rule them and protect the city, these people were the what?
What is a king
100
Give me one person in each social class upper class, middle, lowest class
upper class- kings priests landowners government officials rich merchants
middle class- all free people
lowest class- slaves
200
Mesopotamia had few building materials. Because they could not build with wood or stone, they used this.
What is mud
200
The fine soil deposited by floodwaters
What is slit
200
The leader of a group of people
What is a king
200
To protect their cities, people tried to please their gods. For this reason, these people were the first rulers of Sumer
What is the priests
200
A metal made of copper and tin would be this
What is bronze
300
Mesopotamians grew a surplus of this
What is grain
300
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is called this
What is Mesopotamia
300
An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
300
The largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city was the temple, also known as this.
What is a ziggurat
300
These would be two early inventions of the Sumerians
What is the plow, wheel, potters wheel, written language, bronze,
400
Explain the process in which silt becomes distributed across the floodplain
snow from mountains melt and run down the mountains carrying nutrient rich soil. Water from mountains run into rivers which overflow once they hit the plains. The overflowing water runs over the flood plains leaving nutrient rich soil ( silt) which is good for farming.
400
A period of little rainfall is called this
What is a drought
400
A belief in many gods or goddesses
What is polytheism
400
This is a community that included a city and its nearby farmlands is called this
What is a city-state
400
Picture writing that began to meet the needs of businesses by drawing pictures to explain what was inside of containers is called this
What is pictographs
500
This is the year that farmers built canals oto cary water from the rivers to their fields.
5000 BC
4000 BC
6000 BC
7000 BC
What is 6000 BC
500
a climate meaning having little rainfall and warm temperatures
What is semiarid
500
An advanced form of culture is this
What is a civilization
500
There are 5 traits that characterize civilization. Two of those traits are...
What is advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, advanced technology.