The Land Between Two Rivers
Working With Water
Free Choice
Mesopotamia
Challenging Category
100
Moon-shaped piece of land between the rivers with fertile soil
What is the Fertile Cresent
100
Vocab: rich mixture of bits of rock and soil
What is silt
100
What is Polytheism?
many gods
100
Most important building shaped like a pyramid and used as a temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
100
What does this pyramid represent?
Social Hierachy
200
fertile soil, constant water supply, and places for livestock
What made settlement possible in Mesopotamia
200
true or false; it rained a lot in Mesopotamia
What is false
200
What is Monotheism?
one god
200
Life and the way of living in Sumerian society was based on ...
What is religion?
200
the use of connected ditches, canals, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas
What is irrigation
300
rivers that cut through Mesopotamia
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers
300
true or false; flooding rivers are unpredictable
what is true
300
dry, hot desert like
What is Climate?
300
Performed religious ceremonies
Who are priests?
300
They were expected to take care of the children and home.
Who are women?
400
What continent is Mesopotamia on?
Asia
400
Sumerian society believed that gods have the power to punish and reward them. True or False
True
400
What is the flat fertile area called "land between the rivers"?
Mesopotamia
400
When the floods came it left behind rich fertile soil
What is silt?
400
Who is on the bottom of the social hierarchy?
Who are Slaves?
500
Man made system to control water
What is irrigation?
500
A tool used in farming to break up dirt
What is the plow?
500
Having an abundance of something
What is surplus?
500
carried water from the rivers to the fields
What is a canal?
500
in charge of farming, political power, jobs, etc
Who are men?