Mesopotamia
What does fertile mean?
soil that is good for growing crops
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?
Small particles of rock, minerals, and soil that are carried in water are...
silt
Mesopotamia means...
the land between 2 rivers
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?
Assyrian tablets told this oldest written story ever found.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
A series of rulers who are all from the same family are a ...
dynasty
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
The writing of the Sumerians
cuneiform
Before these were made, flooding was a common and destructive problems for the early Mesopotamians.
What are canals?
A person whose job is copying written information
A scribe
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?
A group of countries or territories controlled by a single leader is ....
an empire
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