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Mesopotamia
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Priests and Kings
Priests and Kings II
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The land between two rivers that had rich soil to grow crops.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
A system of watering crops still used today by farmers.
What is irrrigation?
100
The system to domesticate animals and grow your own food.
What is agriculture?
100
To worship many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
The gods did?
Who chose the kings?
200
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What are the rivers in the Fertile Crescent?
200
They used digging sticks to poke holes in the damp ground and then drop the seeds in the holes.
What was the slow and hard way of planting/sowing seeds?
200
Cities were formed.
What happens before a civilization exists?
200
Large temples where the gods were worshipped.
What are Ziggurats?
200
A written set of laws.
What was a law code?
300
In present day Turkey and into the Persian Gulf.
What was the location of Mesopotamia?
300
Created shallow furrows that made farming faster and easier.
What is the plow?
300
Government, religion, writing system, surplus of food, architecture, cities, and job specializations.
What was necessary to form a civilization?
300
Elements of nature, such as rain and wind or objects such as the plow.
What did the gods represent?
300
On the New Year's festival.
When did the king marry the city's chief goddess?
400
Months of hot sun, strong winds and heavy flooding.
What were challenges to farming in Mesopotamia?
400
One of the greatest inventions that made transportation and trade easier and faster.
What is the wheel?
400
A city and the surrounding land and villages that it controls.
What is a city state?
400
A government headed by a king.
What is a kingship?
400
They built canals, temples, and roads and they served as the city's chief lawmaker and judge.
What did kings do?
500
A Greek word that means the land between two rivers.
Where does the name Mesopotamia come from?
500
The Sumerian alphabet and form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
500
A system of trade.
What is the barter system?
500
Only the priests.
Who communicated with the priests?
500
The priests declared who the gods had chosen as kings.
What power did the gods have over the kings?