Mesopotamia
What does fertile mean?
Rich
The Sumerian farmers grew different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
Possible answers:
What is wheat, barley, dates, corn?
Who created the first set of laws?
Hammurabi
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
Give an example of one of Hammurabi's laws
A variety of answers will do!
What is the name of the land between two rivers?
What is Mesopotamia?
People settled and began communities in this area because of this:
The land was fertile.
Who were the lowest people on the social class pyramid?
Who are the slaves
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?
How was society divided in ancient Mesopotamia?
What is social class
This is a way of supplying water to the land to water crops.
What is irrigation?
Who are people that sold other items to other people?
Who are the merchants?
What working class people were lowest on the social class pyramid in Mesopotamia?
Who are the farmers
True or False
Cuneiform was only used for stories
False
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?
How was the geography of mesopotamia important to hits development?
The rivers produced fertile land that was ideal for growing crops.
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 ______
Akkadian