Vocabulary
Mesopotamia inventions
Handout 1
Section 2 review
Handout 2
100

Who was king Sargon 

Who was the king of the Akkadians 

100

What is the wheel

what is used to make pottory and art.

100

What are the six basic characteristics  of a Civilization.

What are cities organized governments, art,religious class, divisions and a writing system

100

Complex societies that have governments, religion, art, cities, and a writing system.

What are civilizations

100

Why did Sumerian cities often go to war?

Why did they want to control territory and gain glory?

200

Who was king Hammurabri 

Who was the king of Babylon 

200

What is the writing  system

what is coneiform

200

What did the rivers provide the people in the first Civilization 

What provided fresh water, food, dams, and transportaion for trading 

200

The civilization that invented the wheel

What is Mesopotamia

200

What are the three social classes that divided the people in Sumer?

What is the upper-class that included priest, kings, warriors, and government officials? What is the middle- class that included farmers, merchants, artisans, and fishers? What is the lower class that included enslaved people who worked on farm or in temples?

300

What was the Tigris River 

What was one of the rivers that bounded Southern Iraq 

300

What is the number system

what is used to count one hour and 360 degrees 

300

where  mesopotamia was located  on a flat plain between what two rivers 

What is the Tigris and Euphrates river

300

Effects Mesopotamia had living next to a river

What is irrigation

300

What is the name of the wedge-shaped writing?

What is cuneiform?

400

What was Mesopotamia 

What was the ancient civilzation that was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ?

400

What is the agricutive

 what is used to pratice of farming

400

What did farmers in Mesopotamia do to control water problems and ensure that they could grow plenty of food 

What farmers in Mesopotamia built dams channels, walls water ways, and ditches so there are  no more floods

400

A law code made by the king of Babylon

What is the code of Hammurabi

400

What is the name of the world’s oldest story?

What is “Epic of Gilgamesh” ?

500

What is Cuneiform 

What was the name of Sumer's writing 

500

What is the brick

What is used as mass producred bricks

500

What region in southern Mesopotamia had many cities formed by 3,000 b.c.

What sumer is the region in Southern Mesopotamia that had many cities formed by 3,000 b.c.

500

Who controlled some land and decided which crops would be planted

Who were priests 

500

What is Hammurabi best known for?

What is a law code, or collection of laws?