Vocabulary
What is an ancient record-keeper and copyist, before the invention of printing?
What is a scribe?
the TWO rivers that surround Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What was the wheel used for before chariots?
What is pottery.
What social group was at the bottom of Mesopotamia's social pyramid?
What are slaves
What is a form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
What is Cuneiform?
Why was it important that the rivers flooded in Mesoptamia?
What is it left behind silt needed for farming.
What invention was most helpful in assisting trade in Mesopotamia?
What is the sailboat?
What was the most common job in Meosopotamia?
What were farmers?
What is known as an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Name at least two ways the rivers helped provide food for Mesopotamia?
What is
fish from the river,water for their crops, trade
What invention allowed Mesopotamia to organize food storage and record laws?
What is cuneiform?
What was the Mesopotamia social pyramid based on?
What is occupation?
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks left behind by flood waters.
What is slit?
What was the climate in most of Mesopotamia?
What is hot an arid?
What does it mean to barter?
What is trading one good/item for another good/item without the use of currency.
What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek
What is "Land between Two Rivers."
In what present day country is most of Ancient Mesopotamia located in?
What is Iraq?
What is increasing the amount of lands that could be used for farming. More food=more people
Name at least THREE occupations that were considered upper class in Mesopotamia?
What are kings, government officials, priests.
What body of water boarder Mesopotamia to the southeast?
What is the Persian Gulf?