Geography
Mesopotamia was mostly located in which country?
Iraq
Which person in Sumerian society was responsible for contacting the gods?
Priests
What did the Mesopotamians build that was an example of a great "achievement?"
The ziggurat
Who was the person who ruled the city-state of Akkad?
Sargon
What is the word that means there was an excess (or plenty) of something?
Surplus
Which continent is where Mesopotamia would be today?
Asia
List 3 things the priests asked the gods for help with:
Victory over enemies, children to be born, good harvests, wealth, health, etc
List 3 Sumerian achievements:
Wheel, time measurement (60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 30 days in a month), canals, irrigation, study of planet movement
The city-state taken over by Sargon that created the first empire was called:
Sumer
Which group of people were at the bottom of the Sumerian society?
Slaves
Name 3 "geography" items of Mesopotamia:
Trees, sand, rivers, mountains ....
What building did the people worship in?
Ziggurat
What was the first kind of writing by humans that the Mesopotamians are believed to have invented?
Cuneiform
Not counting the king, which person was very close to the top of the social order in Sumerian society?
The priests.
How did people in Mesopotamia record or document when something was sold?
They wrote in wet clay and let it harden.
What are the rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Each city-state had a _________ god (fill in the blank):
Patron god
What is irrigation?
Bringing water from a river or other source to water crops so they can live.
Who were the people who wrote down (on soft clay) what happened in Sumer and the other cities?
Scribes
Who were the people who made things of leather, metal or pottery? They also sold them .....
Craftsmen or merchants
What two words are used to describe the area of good farmland that helped the people of Mesopotamia live and thrive?
Fertile Crescent
What is "divination"?
A practice of trying to figure out the will (plans) of the gods.
Describe what "division of labor" means:
When people could do different jobs since they didn't all need to be farmers (when they grew enough food).
Why were the priests considered so important?
They were thought to talk with the gods and could then tell the people what to do in their lives.
What two words describe how things were bought or sold in Mesopotamia? __________ and ___________
Barter and trade