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The Society
The Land
The People
The Inventions
Government/Religion
100
The three classes in the social structure.
What the upper, middle or lower class?
100
The two rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
They recorded laws.
What are scribes?
100
Made transportation easier.
What is the wheel?
100
Where kings got their power.
What are the gods?
200
These were built around cities for protection from angry neighbors.
What are moats and walls?
200
Where civilization began; also known as the Cradle of Civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
He compiled a list of laws (an eye of an eye).
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Originally used to keep records of trade.
What is writing?
200
Settlements that were surrounded by farmland with their own rulers.
What is a city-state?
300
The class of person would live in the center of town in a two-story house.
What is upper class?
300
The nickname of the region. (Think smiles and Pillsbury rolls)
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
Religious leader who were members of the upper class.
What are priests?
300
Great for farming.
What is the plow?
300
The focal point of a city that showed how much Sumerians valued religion.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The made their living as farmers, fishermen, merchants or craftsmen.
What is the middle class?
400
What Sumerians developed that changed the physical environment.
What is an irrigation system?
400
The head of the government.
What is the king?
400
Helped create strong and more beautiful buildings.
What are arches?
400
This is what cities or villages had to do to make sure irrigation systems ran smoothly.
What is work together or cooperate?
500
Member of the lower class.
Who are slaves?
500
This climate in southern Mesopotamia is why an irrigation system was needed. (Be precise)
What is a hot, dry climate?
500
An expert who studies objects that people have left behind (think Indiana Jones).
What is an archeologist?
500
Canals, reservoirs and levees.
What is an irrigation system?
500
A religion with many gods.
What is polytheism?