Mesopotamia
A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure is a.....
Civilization
Sumerians were the first to invent this farming tool....
The Plow
writing that uses wedge-shaped characters
Cuneiform
The name Mesopotamia means...
Land between two rivers.
Sumerian scribes etched their writing onto....
Clay Tablets
Name two of the Characteristics of a Civilization.
Religion, Food Supply, Technology, Government, Way of Life, Written Language, Social Structure
Why did Sumerians build walls around their cities?
To protect themselves from neighboring attacks.
a means of supplying land with water
Irrigation
The flat land at the bottom of the Zagros Mountains is called....
Sumer
What is a word that means "rich, fertile soil left behind when a river floods"?
Silt
When people in a civilization have different social levels and jobs, it is called....
Social Structure
In Sumer, the water supply was....
Uncontrolled.
an area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared
Sumer
The good farmland in Northern Africa and the Middle East that is in the shape of a moon is called the...
Fertile Crescent
Cuneiform
Small, independent countries in ancient Mesopotamia are called.....
City-States
How did Sumerian farmers control the water supply?
They built canals, levees and reservoirs.
an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
city-state
The two main rivers of Mesopotamia are the....
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top is called a.....
Ziggurat
What mountain range forms the northern border of Mesopotamia?
Zagros Mountains
What drove people out of the mountains and into the plains of Sumer?
Lack of food
a characteristic of civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people
culture
Mesopotamia and Sumer are in the modern day country of ....
Iraq
These were dug around the city-states of Mesopotamia to protect them from intruders....
Moats