Geography
The word Mesopotamia means.
What is "Land between two rivers?"
People that lived outside the city walls and grew crops
Who were farmers?
A water control system that supplies water to the land.
What is an Irrigation system?
An independent state that governs itself. Examples: Ur, Uruk, Nippur
What is a City-State
a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
What is a Levee
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is the Fertile Cresent?
A person who writes things down.
What is a Scribe?
The creation of this helps people get things moved much easier
What is a wheel?
Name of the people who moved to the River Valley from the Zagros Mountains.
Who are the Sumerians?
Fine particles of rock
What is Silt?
The name of the people from Sumer.
Who are the Sumerians
Religious leader.
What is a Priest?
A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets.
What is Cuneiform?
Government type that has a King (or Queen)
What is Monarchy?
the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
What is Technology?
Describe the annual weather of Mesopotamia.
Rain and flood in the spring, hot and dry the other 3 months.
The religious temple priests go to comune with the Gods.
The tool used to break up the soil and make planting seeds much easier.
What is the plow?
What Sumerians had to pay the King in order for protection, and food.
What are taxes?
a person who makes money by selling goods
What is a Merchant?
The modern-day country where Mesopotamia was located.
What is Iraq
Sumerians try to do this in every aspect of their lives.
What is please the God(s)?
The two-wheeled vehicle was pulled by a horse or donkey.
What is a Chariot?
Top of the Mesopotamian Social Structure.
What are Kings and Priests?
a craftsperson
What is an Artisan