Mesopotamia
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
The Sumerian farmers grew different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
Possible answers:
What is wheat, barley, dates, corn?
These are the nomadic people who traveled from place to place in search of food.
Who were the hunters-gatherers?
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
This script of writing was used throughout Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform.
A large arc of fertile land that was good for crops to grow.
What is a fertile crescent?
People settled and began communities in this area because of this:
What is it had fertile land to grow crops?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf.
What is trade?
The ziggurats were built very tall because of this:
What is to connect the heavens and the Earth.
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of this.
What is the gods were angry with them?
Mesopotamia is known as the "Cradle of __________"
What is Civilization?
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?
Who is Hammurabi.
This is a way of supplying water to the land to water crops.
What is irrigation?
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states made of mud bricks.
What is a ziggurat?
Today Mesopotamia is found in __________.
What is Iraq?
Sumerian city/states built a large wall around the city for this reason.
What is protect it from invaders?
Another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
The first empire was the ______ and it was led by ______.
What is the Akkadian and Sargon.
Which group rebelled against the Assyrians?
Who are the Chaldeans.
This was the first army to use iron weapons.
Who are the Assyrians.
Hero of an Epic who travels the world performing great deeds.
Who is Gilgamesh.
Before these were made, flooding was a common and destructive problems for the early Mesopotamians.
What are canals?
The site of the world's first libraries.
What is Nineveh.