Mesopotamia Basics
This region is called the “cradle of civilization” because it had rich soil and a stable food supply.
What is fertile soil leading to a stable food supply?
Flooding helped farmers by leaving this behind.
What is silt?
The writing system used in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
The Israelites believed in how many gods?
What is one (monotheism)?
River most Egyptians lived near.
What is the Nile River?
The land between two rivers where early civilization developed.
What is Mesopotamia?
A job people began to do after food surpluses.
What is specialized work/jobs?
What scribes used to write on tablets.
What is a reed stylus?
The land they wanted to settle in.
What is Canaan?
Who had the most power in Egyptian society.
Who are the pharaohs?
The name of the fertile, curved region shown on maps.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Why rivers were important to early civilizations.
What is they provided water, farming, and transportation?
What tablets were made of.
What is clay?
Leader who helped them escape slavery.
Who is Moses?
What pyramids were used for.
What is to bury pharaohs?
What people built to control flooding.
What are levees?
What farmers were responsible for producing.
What is grain/food?
What artifacts can tell us about daily life.
What is how people lived and worked?
What Moses received on Mount Sinai.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Egyptian writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
What happened when food surpluses developed.
What is job specialization?
What happened if a farmer didn’t do their job.
What is they had to repay or be punished (laws like Hammurabi’s Code)?
Famous set of laws from Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
What the Ark of the Covenant held.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Why Hatshepsut was unusual.
What is she was a woman pharaoh?