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100
The majority of Sumerians were of this social class and had this job.
Lower class peasant farmers.
100
These two rivers were essential to the well being of Ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
This term describes Mesopotamians' belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
The system of writing invented in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
100
Women had higher status in Sumer than in later civilizations of the region because of Sumerians belief in what?
What are goddesses?
200
Hammurabi was ruler of this Mesopotamian empire.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
200
These two mountain ranges fed the rivers that flooded Mesopotamia.
What are the Taurus and Zagros Mountains?
200
Sumerians believed these four things ruled the earth.
What are gods, goddesses, demons, and monsters.
200
These people went through years of difficult training to become record keepers.
Who are scribes?
200
Archaeologists have found artifacts in Mesopotamia as far away as these two places.
What are India and Egypt?
300
This Mesopotamian Empire lasted longer than any other empire in the region.
What is the Sumerian Empire?
300
The reason why Mesopotamian rivers frequently flooded.
What is snow melt and runoff from the mountains in the spring?
300
Sumerians believed the afterlife was like this.
What is they believed in a dark and eternal underworld?
300
This Mesopotamian invention allowed trading between city-states.
What is the sailboat?
300
The difference between artisans and merchants.
What is artisans made objects by hand while merchants were business men (and sometimes women) who were more interested in buying and selling goods than buying and selling them?
400
Three jobs held by kings in Mesopotamia.
What is: 1.To make and enforce laws 2. To lead the army 3. To make sure the ziggurats were in good repair 4. They were in charge of trade with other city-states 5. Decided who farmed the fields
400
Mesopotamians had few natural resources so they built their homes out of this.
Clay/mud bricks.
400
The Epic of Gilgamesh shows us that Mesopotamians believed these two things about the gods.
What is: Kings were demi-gods Gods had human-like features (got sad, fell in love etc.) Gods had superhuman powers
400
The reason why it was important for Mesopotamians to establish a calendar.
What they needed to be able to anticipate when spring would come so they would know when to expect the floods from snow melt.
400
Two groups who made up the Mesopotamian middle class.
What are: 1. Scribes 2. Lesser priests 3. Merchants 4. Artisans
500
Kings and war lords overtook priests at the top of the Mesopotamian social pyramid during these times.
What is during times of war?
500
The way Mesopotamians adapted to their environment and grew crops while avoiding destruction caused by flooding.
What is they created a calendar to anticipate when the floods would come and built levees and irrigation canals?
500
Explain the connection between geography and Mesopotamian's beliefs.
What is Mesopotamians' believed in many gods and goddesses that represented elements of nature (god of the sky, of the moon, of fresh water, of salt water, etc.) because their survival relied upon their knowledge of nature and the good will or nature to bring the floods and to make sure that their crops grew.
500
Describe one advancement made in Mesopotamia and why it was important to Mesopotamians as well as why it is important to the world we live in today.
May include answers about the wheel, measurements of time, the sailboat, written language, or written code of law.
500
Three ways in which archaeologists who found artifacts in Mesopotamia were able to identify that they may have been from other places:
What is: 1.Writing or symbols not native to Mesopotamia 2.The use of resources not found in Mesopotamia (for constructing the artifact) 3.A distinctive style found in the construction of artifacts elsewhere