Vocabulary
The city, the surrounding houses and the surrounding farmland all under the rule of one leader or group
What is a city-state?
This is the main feature of civilization.
What are cities?
Brings nutrient dense silt to the fertile valley.
What is flooding?
The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
The projects organized by the government that help the community be successful.
What are public works?
The first written language based on symbols.
What is cuneiform?
This unifies a civilization under the shared beliefs.
What is religion?
Provides protection from invasion
What are mountains.
The four present day countries that make up Mesopotamia.
What are Kuwait, Iraq, Syria and Turkey?
First developed to keep records.
What is a written language?
A larger flat topped pyramid-like building used as a temple for worship and other community events.
What is a ziggurat?
Someone who makes useful things by hand.
What is an artisan?
rechanneling water for the use on crops.
What is irrigation.
The first ruler to write a written code of law.
Who was Hammurabi?
Your rank depends on the job you do in the civilization.
What is social class?
Belief in many Gods
What is polytheism?
An advanced settlement that has a steady food supply organized government, religion, and culture as well as advanced technology
What is civilization?
Necessary for trading with other civilizations.
What are rivers (waterways)?
The main five ways the Mesopotamians relied or interacted with the river.
What are the rich soil it brought, irrigation, trade and transport, daily water usage, mud bricks,
The number one most important characteristic of civilization.
What is a steady supply or surplus of food and water?
Means between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Different people doing different jobs for the betterment of the civilization
What is specialized labor
The theme of Geography that addresses this category
What is human-environment interaction?
Some inventions Mesopotamia is known for.
What are the wheel, irrigation, 60 minutes, 60 seconds, 360 degrees in a circle, sail boat?
The characteristic of civilization that the Ziggurat would fall under.
What is arts, achievements and architecture?