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Vocabulary
100
The two main rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates River?
100
Mesopotamians believed in many gods. Also known as _____.
What is Polytheistic?
100
This helped keep record of laws, trade, and history.
What is cuneiform?
100
The leader at the top of society.
Who are Kings?
100
True/False? Mesopotamians traded goods like grain, cloth, and pottery.
True
100
The largest group in the social pyramid.
What are slaves?
100
Able to produce abundant crops or vegetation.
What is Fertile?
200
True or False? The unpredictable flooding of these rivers helped soil become fertile.
True
200
Only ______ could communicate with the gods.
Who are Priests?
200
This concept helped Sumerians track time, divide a year into 12 months, and put value to their trading goods.
What is a number system?
What is mathematics?
200
______ and _____ were closely linked as Sumarians beleived that each city-state was protected by a chief god. (Hint- its two of these G R A P E S)
What are Religion and Politics?
200
A way Mesopotamians got goods they didn’t have.
What is trading or bartering?
200
People who were respected writers in Mesopotamia.
What are Scribes?
200
Belief in, or worship of, more than one god.
What is Polytheistic?
300
Mesopotamia which means: _____ _____ _____ ____, is located in which present-day country?
What is Land Between Two Rivers and Iraq?
300
They kept their gods happy by leaving ______ in their temples. These temples are also known as_____.
What are offerings or sacrifices?
What is a Ziggurat?
300
A Sumerian invention initially used for pottery, milling, and irrigation, which later enabled efficient travel for trade.
What is the wheel?
300
A set of laws created to govern Mesopotamia.
How many codes were there?
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
There were 252 codes.
300
Territory surrounded by walls, included a king, and densely packed houses.
What is a city-state?
300
One way a person could become a slave.
One way a person could become a salve is by being captured in war
or
One way a person could become a salve is by failing to pay a debt.
300
Watering crops through man-made efforts such as ditches and canals.
What is Irrigation?
400
A boomerang🪃-shaped region with fertile soil located in the Middle East.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
400
Name one type of god Mesopotamians believed in.
What is a Sky god
What is a water god
What are Nature Based gods
400
Before farming (aka The Neolithic Revolution), humans got food by ____ and ____.
What is Hunting and Gathering?
400
**Daily Double**
Answer in a complete sentence:
Why were laws important in Mesopotamia?
400
Sumerian government codes that set prices and punishments for trade issues.
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
400
They had the most power at the top of the social pyramid?
Who are kings?
400
Ancient wedge-shaped writing system in Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
500
Name this structure which is a man-made channel built to carry water from one location to another. 
What is an Aqueduct?
500
In ancient Mesopotamia, ___1____ were considered very powerful because they believed ___2___.
1.Who are Priests
2.Why is priests could communicate with the gods?
500
A tool invented (and still used today) that made farming easier so more food could be made.
What is a seed funnel?
500
Hammurabi’s Code helped streamline these, which created order amongst the people of Mesopotamia...
What are punishments, trade rules, and justice?
500
Short Answer: Why was farming important to the economy?
Answer in a complete sentence.
Farming was important to the economy because they were able to produce a surplus of food, which lead to trade & population growth.
500
Priests communicated with gods, which made them…
Very powerful.
Very influential.
500
A rectangular shaped tower, the most prominent Sumerian building.
What is a Ziggurat?