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Rivers
The Emergence of Cities
Government and Religion
Trade
100
Name the two major river systems in Mesopotamia
What is The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
Name 3 city-states in Mesopotamia.
What is Ur, Kish, Uruk Eridu, Babylon , Nippur Lagash
100
What type of government did the City-States practice?
What is a Monarchy- ruled by a king or queen.
100
What was Mesopotamia know for trading
What is food
200
Name 4 things people used the rivers for?
What is drinking, cooking, bathing, fishing, traveling, farming
200
What allowed City-States to become more complex and advanced?
What is Economic Surpluses
200
When a King died, who became the new King?
What is the kings son.
200
What Country did Mesopotamia do the majority of its trading with?
What is Egypt
300
Where do the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers end at?
What is the Persian Gulf
300
What always surrounded City-States?
What is walls and farmland.
300
What type of Religion did the Sumerians practice?
What is polytheism, the belief in many gods.
300
What were 3 ways traders traveled?
What is by, boat, walking and caravan
400
What did Mesopotamians have to build to allow the river water to reach there crops?
What is Cannals
400
Over time, how big did City-State populations get?
What is 60,000
400
Besides Kings, who also held lots of power in Sumerian society.
What is priests
400
Why did Mesopotamia want to trade with other countries?
What is to get materials to build city-states
500
Name 2 things all city-states had in common
What is similar religious practices, language, buildings, art and crafts.
500
What did a King have total authority over?
What is religion, the economy and everyday life
500
What is the difference between "import" and "export"?
What is Import means to buy Export means to sell