Geography
This word means the land between two rivers.
Mesopotamia
The belief in ONE god
Monotheism
The writing system of Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Having more of something than you need; extra food
Surplus
At the bottom of the social pyramid
Slaves
These two rivers flow through Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates
The belief in MORE THAN ONE god
Polytheism
This achievement contains stories like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Literature
The Sumerians believed that their gods supported these people
Kings
At the top of the Social Pyramid
Kings
Mesopotamia once covered most of what modern-day country.
Iraq
Priests and priestesses cared for the gods in the shrines at the top of these pyramid-shaped temples
Zigguats
This changes pre-history to history.
Writing
Small, independent countries with their own laws, governments, armies, and patron deities.
City-states
At the lower level, these people performed essential, often physically demanding work
Laborers
This was the reason the Sumerians had to leave the foothills and move to the plains.
They didn't have a stable food supply
There have been this number of gods recorded throughout Mesopotamian history.
Over 3000
Irrigation and Plow
This type of land allowed farmers to grow more food than they needed for their families, creating a surplus
Fertile land
These people at the middle level could read and write cuneiform
Sumerians built irrigation systems that included levees and reservoirs to solve this problem.
Uncontrolled flooding in the plains.
The relationship between the people and their gods was based on this
service
This architectural innovation added strength and beauty to Sumerian city-states.
Arches
The business of buying and selling or exchanging items
Trade
These people from the middle level were skilled at mathematics and traded goods
Merchants