Mesopotamia 1
A writer and record keeper.
What is a scribe?
More than is needed.
What is a surplus?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
This has its own government, army, and laws
What is a city-state?
guffa, donkey or foot
What were ways to transport goods or people for trade?
farming tool that prepared the fields faster for planting.
What is the plow?
The result of tools and technology invented for farming.
What is stable food supply?
What is the calendar?
The gods were believed to have given this person power.
Who was the king?
Lived in 2 story homes, at 3 meals a day, and wore fancy clothes.
Who were the upper class?
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of what?
What is the gods were angry with them?
Mesopotamia is known as the "First __________"
What is "Civilization"?
The invention that led to: carts, wagons, & pottery
What is the wheel?
These 3 groups of people would be found in the upper class of Mesopotamian society.
Who are Kings, priests, and government officials?
Collected taxes, helped run the army, worked alongside the king.
Who were government officials?
The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamian writing.
What is Cuneiform ?
The people who did the least desirable work in Mesopotamia society.
Who are slaves?
Exchanging goods you have for the goods you need.
What is the barter or trade system?
Made offerings to the gods and responsible for the gods to look favorably on the city-state
Who were priests?
System of canals bringing water to the land
What is irrigation?
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is Land Between the Rivers?
Eye for an eye
What are Hammurabi's code of laws?
variety of woven cloth
What are textiles?
What was the Babylonian Empire?