Geography
Mesopotamia means
land between the rivers
Most people in Sumer were ...
farmers
When you have a picture symbol that represents an object it is called a _____________
Pictograph
We were excellent sailors and traders
Phoenicians
countryside
rural
Hunter-gatherer groups first settled in Mesopotamia more than _______________ years ago
12,000
Sumerians built up ______________ and ___________ to protect their cities
strong armies, thick walls
sumerians first used cuneiform to ...
keep business records
We ruled from Ninevah
Assyrians
effect, or result
impact
Farming settlements first formed in Mesopotamia around
7,000 BC
Gilgamesh was a famous king of ____________
Uruk
Two of the Sumerians most important developments were the ___________ and the _______________
wheel, plow, a math system based on the number 60
We destroyed Ninevah
Chaldeans
division of society by rank or class
social hierarchy
To solve their issue of controlling water, Mesopotamians learned how to ______________
irrigate
A group called the _______________ lived north of Sumer
Akkadians
The Sumerians were very skilled at the science of building. It is known as __________________.
architecture
We developed a code of laws
Babylonians
writer
scribe
Having people to work on different jobs meant...
society could accomplish more
What did priests do?
interpreted the wishes of the gods and made offerings to them
This object was made of stone, engraved, and rolled over clay
cylinder seal
You use our alphabet
Phoenicians
a pyramid shaped temple tower
ziggurat