Geography
Mesopotamia means this.
When a civilization believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
Name at least three achievements from the Mesopotamian civilization.
What is cuneiform, sailboat, irrigation, plow, wagon wheel, astronomy, board games, calendar, time?
This person made the decisions in Mesopotamian society.
What is the King?
The division of society by wealth, roles, and privileges.
What is a social pyramid?
The names of the two rivers that Mesopotamia is between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The pyramid-shaped structure that was built in the center of the city-states for religious ceremonies and purposes.
What are ziggurats?
Cuneiform is this.
What is wedge-shaped symbols written on clay that was the first form of writing?
The exchange of goods either for money or other goods.
What is to trade/barter?
The top of the social pyramid in Mesopotamia.
What is the King and his family?
Mesopotamia was on the same land that is now this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
A Mesopotamian king's authority came from this.
What is the gods?
The specific city-state where cuneiform originated.
What is Sumer?
Mesopotamians had a surplus of these items, and were able to export them to other civilizations.
What is wheat, barley, tools?
The bottom of the social pyramid in Mesopotamia.
What are people who were enslaved?
Three Mesopotamian cities.
What are Sumer, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur, Assur, Akkad, etc?
Sumerians worshipped this many main gods.
What is four gods?
The sailboat and wagon wheel were important Mesopotamian achievements because they helped with this.
What is trading with other city-states?
Mesopotamia did not have these materials, and needed to trade with other civilizations in order to get them.
What is timber (wood) and minerals?
The next part of the social pyramid below the King in Mesopotamia.
What are priests/military leaders?
Mesopotamians chose to live by the two rivers for these three main reasons.
What is fertile soil, irrigation purposes, and transportation?
Name two of the four main gods that the Sumerians worshipped.
What are Sky, Wind, Foothills, Freshwater?
A city and the land around it that functioned like a small country, which was another achievement from the Mesopotamian civilization.
What is a city-state?
Mesopotamians were able to distribute resources this way.
Two examples of jobs that Mesopotamians in the middle of the social pyramid might have had.
What is scribes, merchants, traders, farmers, laborers?