Geography
What are the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates River.
Was Sumer in northern, eastern, southern, or western Mesopotamia.
Southern
What is the word that means to train a wild animal to be useful to humans.
Domesticate
The fertile crescent was very ______.
Fertile
What is the name of the land between the rivers?
Modern day Iraq or Mesopotamia
What is the name of the area of land in Mesopotamia that was very fertile.
The Fertile Crescent.
Sumerians invented _____ to make wagons.
Wheels
What word means a type of writing using wedge shaped characters.
Cuneiform
The land outside of Mesopotamia was very ____.
Arid
On a map, which side is each river on?
The Tigris is on the left and the Euphrates is on the right.
What is the place in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared.
Sumer.
The first war was between Sumer and Who?
Elam
What word means a large area of land where multiple groups of government are ruled by the same laws and government.
Empire
What climate is what used to be Ancient Mesopotamia now.
Dry and hot.
The rivers empty out into the _____ ___.
Persian Gulf
Mesopotamia is now modern day ____.
Iraq
The battle wagons they made carried _____. (give 2 examples.)
Possible answers: archers, soldiers, generals, weapons.
What word means a military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.
Siege
A global goal that the Mesopotamians succeeded with was _____.
Climate action
The rivers start at the _____ _____.
Taurus Mountains.
Mesopotamia is in the continent of ____.
Asia
The first war took place in ____.
2700 BCE
What does polytheism mean?
The belief that there are many gods.
The Mesopotamians had to rely on river water because they couldn't rely on _____.
Rain
The rivers were filled with small particles of rock known as ___.
Silt