Mesopotamia
What is the meaning of Mesopotamia?
What is the land between two rivers?
What was the name of the temples built in Mesopotamia?
Ziggurats.
How a civilization is/was divided into classes.
What are Social Groups?
What were the features of civilization?
Cities, Government, Religion, Job specialization, Culture, Writing, and Social class.
What is the river called that is in Egypt?
The river Nile.
An epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Everyone was expected to do what?
Sing hymns say prayers, make sacrifices and bring offerings to the local temples for the gods.
What did Mesopotamians grow?
What is Barley, wheat, millet, and sesame?
The main writing tool used by Mesopotamians.
What is a Stylus?
Name one river in Mesopotamia.
Tigris or Euphrates river.
The wedge-shaped system of writing was used in the ancient Middle East.
What is cuneiform?
What is the name of the gods in Mesopotamia?
An, Enlil, Enki.
The lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Middle East?
What are social classes?
Social classes are groups of people that occupy different ranks old levels in society.
What is the river called that is in India?
The Indus river.
The belief in many gods.
What is Polytheism?
What are the names of the goddesses in Mesopotamia?
Ianna and Ninhurshag.
What were the barriers used to prevent flooding called?
Dykes.
The practices living in one place for a long period of time.
What are sedentary communities?
What is one of the rivers called that is in China?
The Yellow or the Yangtze River.
A country, state, or city in which has been subjugated by military force.
What is conquest?
Belonging to a time that was long ago in the past.
What is the meaning of ancient?
What was the best advantage of the flooding?
The best advantage was farming.
People in the early civilization produced?
Art, music, and literature.
A place that is named for its rich soils.
What is the Fertile Cresent?