Geography
What are the two rivers that Mesopotamia
Tigris River & Euphrates River
What invention made caring crops easier for Mesopotamia farmers?
the wheel and cart
What was the first civilization in Mesopotamia?
Sumerian
Mesopotamians create the first writing system known to us as
cuneiform
The Sumerians used a system of measurements based on the number?
60
The fertile area in the Middle East is known as
Fertile Crescent
Which one below was NOT a problem or a challenge that faced the Sumerian farmers.
crop surplus
Because farming could now meet the needs of more and more people, villages
grew into cities
Because paper had not been invented yet, Mesopotamians wrote their language on
clay tablets
The Sumerians created a calendar with how many number of days in a year?
360
When the two rivers would flood, they would deposited a fertile soil known as?
silt
How did the Sumerian farmers get water from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to their farms?
dug canals creating the world first irrigation system
Weavers and potters, who learned the skills to produce goods for trade were known as?
artisans
Writing allowed Mesopotamians to ________________________ knowledge permanently.
record
The Sumerians used units of what number to measure time?
60
The Rivers provided much needed water for the fields, but it also provided a natural route of
water transportation
What metal did Sumerian discover through metallurgy?
bronze
Cities developed into independent ___________________________ , with markets, farmers, and craftsmen traded for, tools potter, cloth, and other essentials.
city-states
The people who could write were called?
scribes
Mesopotamia were ________________________ who worshiped hundreds of different gods.
polytheists
What two other physical features, other than the rivers, provide natural boundaries that kept the valley safe from invasion for many years.
mountains & desert
With the technology of bronze, farmers were able to create a crop
surplus
Well-traveled paths became the first?
roads
An epic that tells the story of a legendary or real hero is a/an?
long poem
The Mesopotamians believed that natural disasters occurred because the gods were?
dissatisfied