Mesopotamia 1
Mesopotamia means the land between the...
rivers
Another word for farming.
Agriculture
Who created the first set of laws?
King Hammurabi
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
What does fertile mean?
soil that is good for growing crops
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
Tigris River and Euphrates Rivers
This is a way of supplying water to the land to water crops.
What is irrigation?
What working class people were lowest on the social class pyramid in Mesopotamia?
farmers and slaves
A group of countries or territories controlled by a single leader is ....
an empire
The first empire was the ______
Akkadian Empire
A person whose job is copying written information
A scribe
The first writing of the Sumerians
cuneiform
This was the largest building in most Sumerian city states, built tall to connect to their gods in heaven.
What is a ziggurat?
The Sumerian farmers grew different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
Possible answers:
What is wheat, barley, dates, corn?
Sumerian city states built a large wall around the city for this reason.
To protect it from invaders