Vocabulary
A region in southwest Asia known for the 1st civilization.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Soil that is rich with nutrients and good for farming is called ________________.
What is fertile?
The _____________________ were known for inventing the first alphabet.
Who were the Phoenicians?
This was the name of the code of law in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This religious belief was central to Mesopotamian culture.
What is polytheism?
A temple where the priests lived. Each was built in honor of a god.
What is a ziggurat?
Land, Rivers
The people who were responsible for the writing tasks in Mesopotamia were known as _____________.
Who were scribes?
Sumerian cities grew prosperous because they had a _____________ of food and crops.
What is surplus?
The belief in many gods?
What is polytheism?
These 2 rivers were very important in the development of Mesopotamian civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This resource was the most valuable for building in Mesopotamia.
What is clay?
The MOST important economic activity in Mesopotamia.
What is trade?
This group of people were the workers for construction projects. They were also at the bottom of the social structure.
Who were the slaves?
Ancient form of writing using wedges and lines.
What is cuneiform?
This happened annually which allowed the Mesopotamians to have fertile soil.
What is flood?
This was the main achievement in Mesopotamian ARCHITECTURE (building).
What is the ziggurat?
The technological advancements (inventions) of the ____________ and ___________ helped Mesopotamians cross challenging landscapes and move people and goods efficiently.
What are wheel and ships?
The social structure in Ancient Mesopotamia could be described as a ___________ in which people or groups were ranked one above the other according to status or authority?
What is a hierarchy?
A group of city-states under one authority.
What is an empire?
How did the Mesopotamians adapt to the geography of their area?
What is they developed a system of irrigation?
This is what cuneiform was mainly used for.
What is record keeping?
These were some of the things built by Ancient Mesopotamians for irrigation.
What are dams, canals, and ditches?
These people held positions of power in Mesopotamia.
Who were priests and kings?