Geography
What 2 rivers was Mesopotamia located between?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Sumerians created this, which is still used to this day for transportation.
What is a wheel?
This founding father of Judaism was a Sumerian.
Who is Abraham?
The act of exchanging goods for other goods.
What is trade?
The group of people who lived in Mesopotamia.
What are Sumerians?
Mesopotamia was located in this area of land, named for its good soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The Sumerians invented and used this form of technology to supply water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
What is polytheism?
The position at the top of the social pyramid.
Who was the King?
Before people settled down and became farmers, they were these, which describes the two different ways they got their food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is "land between the rivers"?
Mesopotamia is known for being the first ______, an advanced form of society.
What is a civilization?
A temple that was made up of stacked platforms.
What is a ziggurat?
Who was at the bottom of the social structure?
Who are slaves?
There are 6 characteristics of civilizations. Name three.
What is Geography, Religion, Accomplishments, Political System, Economics, and Social Structure.
For P will also accept Politics.
For S will also accept Society.
In the northern part of Mesopotamia, there were 2 of these landforms.
What are mountains?
Sumerians created the first written language, known as ______.
What is cuneiform?
This set of laws was the first to be created.
Was is the Code of Hammurabi?
This was a state with its own government and traditions, surrounded by a wall.
The rivers flooded once a year, during this season, both spreading silt (positive) and wiping away people, houses, and crops (negative).
What is spring?
This was the largest city-state, where Abraham grew up.
What is Ur?
Sumerians created this new metal, by mixing cooper and tin. This metal was stronger than the others, so it was used to create weapons.
What is bronze?
What two positions worked closely together to run city-states?
What are priests and kings?
Name one profession that fell in the middle class.
What is a farmer or a skilled worker?
Sumerians were the first to develop this concept, by dividing up the year.
What is time?