Tools and Machines
Mesopotamians used this cart pulled by animals to travel on land
What is a Chariot?
Mesopotamians figured out how to use these as transportation systems and to help the growth of crops
What are canals or rivers?
The best-known set of Mesopotamian laws
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
The climate in Mesopotamia is __ and __
What is hot and dry?
The earliest known system of writing
What is Cuneiform?
The Mesopotamian machine which helped people prepare land for farming
What is a plow?
Mesopotamians did this to the land to bring water to their fields
What is irrigate?
The best-known set of Mesopotamian laws was based on this idea
What is "An eye for an eye"?
Mesopotamians divided the year into these seasons
What are summer and winter?
A carved image on a stone surface
What is a relief?
Mesopotamians built these to direct the flow of water
What are dikes or canals?
Mesopotamians put these on the shoulders of animals to get them to pull plows
What are shoulder yokes?
A large area of many territories and people all controlled by one government
What is an empire or civilization?
The four civilizations which make up Mesopotamia
What are Sumer, Babylon, Assyria and Chaldea?
A list of words or images that tell the story of Mesopotamia in order of earliest to most recent
What is a chronology?
This Mesopotamian innovation let them scoop water from below
What is a well?
Astronomers of Mesopotamia did this to work out a 12-month calendar
What is follow the cycle of the moon?
The three items that made up the Babylonian money system
What are shekel, mina and talent?
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia
What are The Tigris and Euphrates?
These people used their writing skills to make a living by keeping records on clay tablets
Who are Scribes?
A simple machine using a wheel and a rope that can be used in a well
What is a pulley?
This ziggurat in Babylon is one of the Seven Wonders of the World
What are The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Sumerians used this system to buy and sell goods
What is a barter system?
Mesopotamia was part of the area known as The __ Crescent
What is The Fertile Crescent?
Four pictographs that made up the earliest system of writing
What are mountain, grain, ox and bird?