Mesopotamia Part 1
Mesopotamia was between what two rivers?
What are the Tigris & Euphrates River?
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, and streams
What is irrigation?
What is a city that governs itself and its surrounding territories?
What are city-states?
Mesopotamia was in a region also called what?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
These people had two different jobs. The men would typically _____ and the women would __________.
What are hunter-gatherers?
The Neolithic Age people invented this important system that helped them survive.
What is farming/agriculture?
What is the word that means "land that can produce good crops"?
What is fertile?
What is a large area of land under the rule of one group or person called?
What is an empire?
What did weaker city-states have to pay to stronger ones that conquered them?
A tribute
Who created the oldest code of law?
Who was Hammurabi?
What was the name of the Age where most people used simple tools and did have the ability to farm?
What is the Paleolithic Age?
What does "domesticate" mean?
What is to train an animal or plant to live or work with humans?
What written language did the Mesopotamians create?
What is Cuneiform?
What was one of the world's oldest laws called?
What is Hammurabi's code?
What structures were built in Mesopotamian cities to worship their gods?
Ziggurats
What was one of the Seven Wonders of the World in Babylon?
What are the Hanging Gardens?
What were the tools the Paleolithic Age people used to paint?
What are sticks and their hands?
What were the places of worship called that Neolithic Age people worsipped at?
What are shrines?