TERMS
This is the specialization of jobs, because not everyone has to be a farmer
What is division of labor?
The Mesopotamians are believed to be the first to create this for carts and the production of pottery.
What is the wheel?
Mesopotamia- meaning of the word
What is between the rivers?
Surprisingly, these women did not have any power, even though they were royalty
What is queens?
Great structures and public works were made possible because people paid these...
What are taxes/burdens?
This is the production of storage of extra food, allowing for cities and civilization
What is SURPLUS?
Many things made on a scale of 60 are from Sumer, such as... Name one.
What is a minute, second, hour, 360-degree circle?
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.
What is a city-state?
This was the largest class of the Mesopotamian social structure.
What is middle class?
This is the worship of many gods
What is POLYTHEISM?
The wooden plow and the _________ _________ greatly aided farming and the creation of a surplus.
What is a seed drill?
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 first rulers of Mesopotamia, not kings.
What were priests?
The main unit of Mesopotamian social structure was the ______
What is the family?
This is the official words for the domestication of crops or farming
plus the other type of economic process that Mesopotamians used.
What are AGRICULTURE and TRADE?
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?
This is the type of political body ruled by kings
What is a MONARCHY?
Without the use of this to water crops, surplus, division of labor, and cities would not have been possible.
What is _____________?
This is the oldest known written Epic Poem/Story in the world.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This system of writing and the people who wrote documents were some of the most lasting achievements of Mesopotamia. Name Both.
What is cuneiform and a scribe?
Constant floods and droughts meant that the people had to "_______" the rivers to work for them. They did this in many ways.
Name the term and two ways that they made the rivers work for them.
What is to "tame" ?
What are canals, damns, levees, irrigation ditches?
This is the passing of a kingdom from father to son or uncle to nephew.
What is Hereditary succession?
Mesopotamian social structure was a ____________
meaning that it was mostly male-dominated
What is a PATRIARCHY?