Geography
Mesopotamia is located between what two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates
The Sumerians practiced a belief
in more than one God. What is this
called?
Polytheism
Mesopotamians created the first
writing system. This writing
system is called what?
Cuneiform
The word Mesopotamia means…
The land between the rivers
When the Tigris and the Euphrates
would flood, a fine soil would be left
behind. What is this fine mixture of soil
and tiny rocks called?
Silt
The division of society by rank or
class is called ________.
Social Hierarchy
Without the Mesopotamian invention
of the ______, we may not have cars,
bicycles, or even trains.
Wheel
If Hammurabi wrote his code in
approximately 1800 BC, how many
years ago did he write it?
Approximately 3800 years ago.
Mesopotamia is located in what
larger, arc shaped region of fertile
farmland?
Fertile Crescent
A _________ consisted of a city
and all the countryside around
it. They also had their own military,
government, land, name, and laws.
City-State
They invented this because they needed water transportation for food and trade.
Sail
A writer from ancient
times is known as a what?
Scribe
In order to keep cities from flooding,
Mesopotamians learned to use ________,
or the ways of supplying water to land
through the use of canals, ditches, and
reservoirs.
Irrigation
The region in southern Mesopotamia.
Sumer
This was used to make farming more efficient rather than doing it all by hand.
Plow
The Sumerians built large,
pyramid shaped temples in order
to worship their gods. These temples
were called…
Ziggurats
What do the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into?
Persian Gulf
The upper class in the social structure included what people..
kings, priests, warriors, and government workers
The technology of metals.
Why did Mesopotamians build walls
around their city-states?
For protection