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?
This color is said to have been the inspiration for the Greeks giving the name the Phoenicians.
What is Purple.
Sumerian city/states became economically successful primarily through this with other communities and people.
What is trade?
The ziggurats were built for this purpose.
What is for religious purposes?
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 group had extensive trade by boat, sailing throughout the Mediterranean sea and beyond.
Who are the Phoenicians?
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?
Gods, generally, in Mesopotamia represented the things and phenomenon that they did not understand.
What is Nature?
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states made of mud bricks, and was built tall to connect to the heavens.
What is a ziggurat?
This person created the Royal Road to facilitate communication within the region of Mesopotamia.
Who is Darius?
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.