Vocabulary
An essay that uses textual evidence to support a claim
What is a DBQ?
or
What is a Document Based Question?
Applying scientific knowledge to make life easier
What is Technology?
Sumer was the world's first
What is civilization?
Mesopotamia is located in this geographic region
What is the Middle East?
The World's First Empire
What is Akkad?
A firsthand account of an event, like a journal
What is a primary source?
Dividing people into different groups based on a set of standards
What is Social Structure?
This invention made planting seeds a quicker process for farmers
What is the plow?
A commonly used nickname for Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The Mesopotamian empire with the largest territory
What is Assyria?
This structure was used as a center of religion in Mesopotamia
What is a Ziggurat?
Religion is important for this reason
What is a sense of community?
or
What is a set of rules to follow?
Sumerian Kings were so respected for this reason
What is the belief they were supported by the gods?
Mesopotamia's surrounding provided this for its civilizations
What are natural barriers?
or
What is defense?
This empire was the last empire of Mesopotamia
What is the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
Cuneiform consisted of symbols created by this shape
What is a wedge?
Without this, there would be no history to learn from
What is writing?
Reason music was important to the Sumerians
What is the belief that the gods enjoyed it?
One of the rivers Mesopotamian civilizations were built upon
What is the Tigris?
or
What is the Euphrates?
Strongest leader of the Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
Ancient Emojis
What are pictographs?
Due to this characteristic, people are able to specialize in jobs requiring creativity
What is food supply?
(Farmers focused on growing food, so others could focus on other skills)
Reasons arches were used in building
What is adding strength to the structure
or
What is adding beauty to the structure
The modern country occupying the same land as Ancient Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
This civilization invented the battering Ram
What is the Assyrian Empire?