Geography
What two rivers run through Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
What term describes the belief in many gods?
What is polytheism?
What were the walled cities in Mesopotamia called?
What are city-states?
What were the three main pillars of the Mesopotamian economy?
What are agriculture, trade, and craftsmanship?
What did the surplus of crops lead to in Mesopotamia?
What is the growth of cities and complex societies?
What did the Mesopotamians build to honor their gods?
What type of government was common in Mesopotamia?
What is monarchy?
What materials did Mesopotamians trade for?
What are wood, stone, and other goods?
What did the rivers provide routes for the Mesopotamians?
What are trade and transportation?
What did the Mesopotamians do in the temples?
What is performed rituals and sacrifices?
What was one role of the king or queen in Mesopotamia?
What is to provide security for citizens?
What currency did the Mesopotamians use for trade?
What are silver and gold coins?
What type of land allowed Mesopotamians to be agriculturally successful?
What is fertile land?
True or False: The people of Sumer generally believed in only one god.
What is false?
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
What is one of the earliest and most important examples of written laws?
What does manufacturing mean?
What is making things?
How did the rivers contribute to raising livestock in Mesopotamia?
What is by providing a steady supply of water?
What was one reason for performing rituals in Mesopotamian culture?
What is to please the gods and goddesses?
What type of infrastructure did the governments of Mesopotamia maintain?
What are temples and irrigation systems?
True or False: Mesopotamians were the first people to use money
What is true?