TERMS
This is the specialization of jobs, because not everyone has to be a farmer
What is division of labor?
The Mesopotamians used this system of writing.
What is the cuneiform?
Mesopotamia- meaning of the word
What is between the rivers?
These people were at the top of the social pyramid.
What is kings, queens, and priests?
This system of laws was very strict but also had some modern elements that were way ahead of their time.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This is the production of storage of extra food, allowing for cities and civilization
What is SURPLUS?
These people kept all records in Mesopotamia.
What is a scribe?
This moon-shaped landform is between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Because of geography, Sumerian settlements became _____-______ that were largely cut off from each other, and politically independent. They also each had their own god, leader, and their own army.
What is a city-state?
Artisans, bakers, and free workers were on this part of the social structure pyramid
What is the middle?
This is the worship of many gods
What is POLYTHEISM?
The system of delivering water to plants and keeping cflood waters from destroying cities/crops.
What is irrigation?
This nutrient-rich soil was deposited on the valley floor with each flood and made for great land to grow crops on.
What is silt?
These were the only people in Mesopotamia that could enter the top of the Ziggurat.
What were priests?
Theis the worship of only one god
What is monotheism?
The Domestication of plants can also be called two other words...
Name both
What are AGRICULTURE and FARMING?
These buildings were the most important of each city-state and housed the god.
What is a ZIGGURAT?
These are the two rivers in the Mesopotamian Valley...
(NAME BOTH)
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
These people were at the bottom of the pyramid and had a very large population.
What are servants and slaves?
The domestication of animals is a process of creating more animals to replace the ones that die or are eaten or traded.
What is animal husbandry?
This is the oldest known written Epic Poem/Story in the world.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This system of irrigation involves controlling water, not just watering crops. Name 4 methods to control water in the system of irrigation.
What are dams, levees, ditches, canals?
The reason the land between the rivers was so important was because the rest of the area is _________
What is desert?
Challeng question: This is a politiocal system run by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
Mesopotamian social structure was a ____________
meaning that it was mostly male-dominated
What is a PATRIARCHY?