Territorial
Where was Ancient Mesopotamia located?
Where is between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq and parts of Syria, Turkey, and Iran.
(In the fertile crescent with the river names)
How did Mesopotamians control river flooding?
They built irrigation canals, levees, and dikes to manage water flow.
How did kings justify their power in Mesopotamia?
What is they claimed the gods chose them to rule.
What did Mesopotamians trade?
What was grain, textiles, and pottery for metals, wood, and luxury goods.
What animals did Mesopotamians raise?
What are sheep, goats, cattle, and donkeys
Why were the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers important?
What is they provided water for crops, transportation, and fertile soil.
What were the main crops in Mesopotamia?
What was barley, wheat, dates, and flax.
What was Hammurabi’s Code?
What is a set of 282 laws that governed daily life and justice in Babylon.
Who were scribes?
What were trained writers who recorded laws, business deals, and stories.
Why was writing important in Mesopotamia?
What is it helped keep records, preserve laws, and share ideas.
What was the Fertile Crescent?
What is a crescent-shaped area of rich farmland where early civilizations began.
What jobs did people have in Mesopotamia?
What was farmers, priests, merchants, scribes, soldiers, artisans and slaves.
Who was Hammurabi?
What is The king of Babylon known for creating one of the world’s first written law codes.
What is a city-state?
What is an independent city with its own government and surrounding land.
What type of religion did Mesopotamians believe in?
What is polytheism — belief in many gods.
What type of climate did Mesopotamia have?
What is hot and dry, with little rainfall.
What writing system did Mesopotamians invent?
What is Cuneiform.
Who was at the top and bottom of the hierarchical structure of mesopotamia?
Who are kings at the top and slaves at the bottom.
What were 2 major Mesopotamian city-states?
What are Ur, Uruk, Babylon, or Sumer.
Why is Mesopotamia called the 'Cradle of Civilization'?
What is it was one of the first places where cities, writing, and organized government developed.
What problems did flooding cause in Mesopotamia?
What is unpredictable floods could destroy crops, homes, and irrigation systems.
What scientific advancements came from Mesopotamia?
What are the wheel, the plow, irrigation systems, and the 60-minute hour.
What phrase summarizes Hammurabi’s Code?
What is 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.'
What was a ziggurat and why was it important?
(Double Points!!!!!!!!)
What is a large, stepped temple with a flat top that was built to honor the city’s main god or goddess. It was important because they symbolized a connection between heaven and earth and showed religious devotion.
What ideas from Mesopotamia still influence us today?
What are writing systems, law codes, calendars, and urban planning.