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Farming
The City State
Geography
Religion
Vocabulary
100
What time of the year did the rivers overflow?
Spring
100
What is the first ancient civilization?
Mesopotamia
100
Mesopotamia is located in modern day...?
Iraq
100
Who is the most important person in each City-State
The king
100
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between 2 rivers
200
What did they build to keep the water from flooding the crops?
Levees
200
Who were the first people to settle in Mesopotamia?
Sumerians
200
What continent is Mesopotamia located on?
Asia
200
Who was to blame if the crops did not grow?
The gods
200
This word means passed down from father to son
Hereditary
300
What time of the year would they poke holes in the levees?
Summer
300
What is at the center of each City State?
A Ziggurat
300
Why was it advantageous to live near water?
To fish, to trade, to get water to bath and drink, for the crops
300
Who communicated with the gods?
Priests
300
This word means to stay in one place over the course of time
Sedentary
400
Name 3 inventions for farming
The plough, the wheel, canals
400
How was each king chosen?
Bloodline
400
What is the name of the two rivers Mesopotamia is located between?
Tigris and Euphrates
400
What did the gods control?
The weather
400
What is the name of the writing they used?
Cuneiform
500
When they poked holes in the levees and the water flowed through, what would this create?
Canals
500
If someone committed a crime, what would happen?
They would become a slave and owe a certain amount of hours of hard labour.
500
What natural boundaries surround Mesopotamia? Name 2
Water and mountains
500
What is the word for the type of religion they practiced?
Pagan
500
This word means to keep the crops watered
Irrigate