Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia 1
Mesopotamia 2
Mesopotamia 3
Mesopotamia 4
100
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
100
The Sumerian farmers grew different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
Possible answers:
What is wheat, barley, dates, corn?
100
These are the nomadic people who traveled from place to place in search of food.
Who were the hunters-gatherers?
100
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
This allowed for people in early Mesopotamia to pursue specializations.
What is a food surplus?
200
A large arc of fertile land that was good for crops to grow.
What is a fertile crescent?
200
People settled and began communities in this area because of this:
What is it had fertile land to grow crops?
200
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf.
200
Sumerian city/states became economically successful primarily through this:
What is trade?
200
The ziggurats were built very tall because of this:
What is to connect the heavens and the Earth.
300
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of this.
What is the gods were angry with them?
300
Mesopotamia is known as the "Cradle of __________"
What is Civilization?
300
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is theTigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
When people specialize in a particular task or job.
What is a division of labor?
300
This is a way of supplying water to the land to water crops.
What is irrigation?
400
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states made of mud bricks.
What is a ziggurat?
400
Mesopotamia is found on this continent.
What is Asia?
400
Sumerian city/states built a large wall around the city for this reason.
What is protect it from invaders?
400
Another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
400
What is the name of the this game?
What is the Royal Game of UR
500
This is the term referring to the taming of plants and/or animals.
What is domestication?
500
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is Land between Two Rivers?
500
These are the people in society who lived the closest to the ziggurat in each city/state.
Who were nobles or very important people?
500
Before these were made, flooding was a common and destructive problems for the early Mesopotamians.
What are canals?
500
These are the people who led religious services and communicated the desires of the gods.
Who was a priest?