Mesopotamia Writing
An ancient writing implement, consisting of a small rod with a pointed end is called _____.
What is a stylus?
The wheel was used for in Mesopotamia was used for.
What is pottery.
This tool in ancient Mesopotamia was one of the most important tools of agriculture
What is the plough
This reason is why Mesopotamia called the Fertile Crescent?
What is because of this region's rich soil and the plentiful access to water
Why was beer made.
What is due to water being too contaminated?
Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system that was wrote on _____.
What is wet clay tablets?
The sailboat was invented for ____.
The sailboat was made of ____ or _____.
What is transportation across the water?
What is linen or papyrus?
Agricultural helped enable the rise of these large-scale _____
What is cities and empires
The names of these rivers that make the Mesopotamia region have abundant access to water are called ____.
What are the Tigris, Euphrates, and the Nile?
What did ancient Mesopotamia develop?
What is the agricultural system?
This role in ancient Mesopotamia was highly educated individuals trained in writing and reading on diverse subjects. What is the name of this role/job?
What is a scribe?
Mesopotamians developed the concept of urbanization aka the transformation process of _____
What is a rural area into an urban area)
The Sumerians built on this civilization's technology.
What is the Ancient Egyptian technology?
This reason is why Mesopotamia's land got so fertile.
What are the three rivers: Tigris, Euphrates and the Nile
This reason is why did slaves work for farmers?
What are the children born into slavery, people who were captured in war, individuals who were sold to be put to work, and infants abandoned at birth
_________ is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
This reason is most likely why Sumerian people invented math is ___________.
What is the Sumerian people needed an accurate system to count the goods that they gave and received?
This term can be associated with both technology and agriculture
(Hint: A term that means to water plants)
What is irrigation?
This reason is how Sumerians changed their environment to overcome floods and droughts.
What is they created an irrigation system to allow water use in their fields and overcome droughts?
How long is Euphrates and Tigris in kilometers.
The Mesopotamian writing system was most likely initially developed because ____
What is a way to record/document economic and agriculture transactions.
These objects were mass-produced
What are bricks and ceramics
This reason is how the writing system can benefit the Mesopotamian people of agriculture.
What is to record transactions and purchases of crops and tools?
These countries of the world would still have ancient Mesopotamia today.
What is Iran, Turkey, Syria and Kuwait.
The Mesopotamian people domesticated animals in this BCE.
What is 10,000 BCE?