Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economy/Politics continued
Social Classes
Vocabulary
100
What are the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
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Tigris and Euphrates
100
Who is Enlil?
The god of air, wind, and storms.
100
What invention was created and attached to wagons or carts and later turned in to a potter's _______.
Wheel
100
The first people to settle down in Mesopotamia and form city-states were the _____________.
a. Sumerians
b. Assyrians
c. Chaldeans
d. Akkadians
a. Sumerians
100
What does monarch mean?
a. king
b. a horse drawn cart
c. a sword
a king
100
Who was at the top?
kings/gods
100
What is a poem that was written about a hero called?
a. journey
b. epic
c. fable
b. epic
200
What is the Fertile Crescent? A large _____of rich fertile _______. (two words.)
arc
farmland
200
Who is Enki
Enki was the god of water, wisdom, intellect, and magic. He is said to have shaped the world.
200
What is this Sumerian invention that broke through the hard clay to help plant seeds and crops.
plow
200
This legendary king of Uruk and went on adventures with his friend Enkidu. They killed a demon.
a. Gilgamesh
b. Hammurabi
c. Sargon
Gilgamesh
200
What is a series of territories, kingdoms or city-states under one ruler.
a. empire
b. city-state
c. rural
d. urban
a. empire
200
Where did slaves fall?
at the bottom
200
What is a horse drawn cart used in battle called? ______
chariot
300
Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means?
between the rivers.
300
Who performs religious task to please the gods?
a. priest
b. slaves
c. farmers
d. kings
a. priest
300
What is the first writing system which used wedged-shaped symbols called?
cuneiform
300
King of Babylon that is known for creating the 282 code of laws that were written down. Ex: An eye for an eye
Hammurabi's Code
300
What word means city?
a. rural
b. urban
urban
300
Who were in the lower class?
a. peasants and farmers
b. priests and nobles
c. crafts people, scribes, artisans and merchants.
a. peasants and farmers
300
What is the division of society by rank or class?
a. division of labor
b. social hierarchy
b. social hierarchy
400
What continent is Mesopotamia located in?
Southwest Asia
400
Who is Nanna (sometimes called Sin) the god of?
The moon.
400
What is the place to store water called?
a. basin
b. bath tub
c. canal
b basin
400
Who is Sargon? Fill in the facts below:
a. He created the world's first ________ by conquering all of Mesopotamia and the city-states.
empire
arrows
Akkad
Akkadians
400
What word means countryside?
a. rural
b. urban
rural
400
Who were in the middle class?
a. peasants and farmers
b. priests and nobles
c. crafts people, scribes, artisans and merchants.
c. crafts people, scribes, artisans and merchants.
400
What are special jobs?
a. division of labor
b. social hierarchy
a. division of labor
500
What were the 2 big problem with the rivers?
a. too much water = _________
b. too little water = __________
floods
droughts
500
Who is Utu the god of?
The sun.
500
What is a large pyramid shaped temple in Sumer?
Ziggurat
500
He made his capital Akkad and the empire was known as the _____________ Empire.
a. Sumerian
b. Akkadian
c. Uruk
Akkadian
500
What is a city and all the countryside around it called?
a. city-state
b. empire
a. city-state
500
What are artisans or crafts people examples?
a. pottery maker, jewelry maker, scribe, weaver
b. ditch or canal digger
c. a god
a. pottery maker, jewelry maker, scribe, weaver
500
What is a professional writer?
scribe
600
What is the system of supplying water to an area of dry land?
a. irrigation
b. canal
c. basin
irrigation
600
What word means belief in many gods?
a. Polytheism
b. monotheism
polytheism
600
What is a human made water way?
a. canal
b. irrigation
c. basin
a canal
600
What does this law mean?
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
a. it means that the person will have equal punishment that was done to their victim.
b. It means they take their eyes and teeth
c. It means that the person will lose an eye or a tooth but only one.
a.
600
The Phoenician were sailors that traded on the Mediterranean sea. They traded purple dyed fabric.
True
False
True
600
Which social class/group is the most important? Why?
a.King
b.priest
c. crafters, artisans and merchants
d. Farmers/peasants
farmers and peasants because they grow the food which allows for more jobs to be created and those people don't have to worry about hunting and gathering food to survive. They can trade their items for food.
600
What is surplus?
a. extra amount usually food
b. a lack of food
c. a lack of water
a. extra amount usually food.