Mesopotamia
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
The Sumerian farmers grew 4 main different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
Possible answers:
What is wheat, barley, dates, corn?
These are the type of 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 made it possible for people to eat when the growing season was bad.
What is a food surplus?
Another name for Mesopotamia
What is a fertile crescent?
People settled and began communities in this area because of this main reason.
What is it had fertile land to grow crops?
This is the mountain range to the east of the Tigris River.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
Sumerian city/states became economically successful primarily because they did this with surplus items.
What is trade?
The ziggurats were built very tall because of this:
What is to connect/pray to the gods and heavens.
The area of land near the river edge where people planted their crops.
What is the floodplain?
Mesopotamia is known as the "Fertile __________"
What is Crescent?
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is theTigris and Euphrates Rivers?
When people specialize in a particular task or job.
What is a division of labor?
This is the name of a person who made weapons and armor.
What is a blacksmith?
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states where people went to worship and pray to their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamia is found on this continent.
What is Asia?
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 ___________ Era was the period of time in history when farming and agriculture began.
What is Neolithic?
This is the term referring to the taming of plants and/or animals.
What is domestication?
What is another name for the Greek phrase "The Land Between Two Rivers?"
What is Mesopotamia?
These are the class of people in society who lived the closest to the ziggurat in each city/state.
Who were upper class people (nobles, priests, landowners)?
Before this was made, flooding was a common. They used what special technique to water their crops?
What is irrigation?
These are the people who led religious services and communicated the desires of the gods.
Who was a priest or priestess?