Classroom Expectations
Irrigation
City-States
Polytheism
Social Class
100
If someone else is asking or answering a question, presenting information, or the teacher is talking, you should be doing this.
What is listening silently/not talking.
100
Mesopotamian used irrigation to help them with this task.
What is farming.
100
This is the main difference between a country and a city-state.
What is the size.
100
Polytheism means this.
What is belief in multiple gods.
100
We usually diagram social class in this shape.
What is a pyramid.
200
I can receive a warning for failing to follow this part of the ACHIEVE tower.
What is ALL OF IT.
200
Irrigation allowed Mesopotamians to control this.
What is the flooding of rivers.
200
This was the name of the first large city-state.
What is Sumer.
200
Each city-state had its own primary god, which was worshiped here.
What is the ziggurat.
200
The lower classes lived here.
Where is outside the city walls.
300
It is okay to have my phone out in class in this instance.
What is when Miss Ortega says it is okay.
300
This was one of the two rivers that helped make Mesopotamia so fertile.
What is the Tigris River or Euphrates River.
300
The city walls helped with these two things.
What is military defense and flood protection.
300
These people were in charge of appeasing the gods.
Who are priests and priestesses.
300
The higher your social class, the closer you lived to this.
What is the ziggurat.
400
You should do this when Miss O. asks you to clap, say "shhhh," or Warrior Clap.
What is stop talking and look at her.
400
Irrigation and farming allowed for a ___________ of food in Mesopotamia. (economics vocab)
What is surplus.
400
City-states were laid out mainly according to these divisions.
What is social class.
400
Most Mesopotamian gods were representatives of this in some way.
What is nature.
400
The Mesopotamian kings were different than regular kings in this way.
What is being a priest.
500
Work habits will be scored differently in these main TWO ways.
What is no categories, and scores 1-4 each week.
500
Draw a Mesopotamian irrigation diagram.
You should have a river, canals, levees, farmland, and a gate in your image.
500
City-states had big problems with this, often leading to their destruction.
What is warfare with other city-states.
500
The importance of religion in Mesopotamia is reflected through this government type.
What is theocracy.
500
Scribes were important for doing this for the city-state.
What is keeping records.