Time and Place
When Ur began and when the civilization of Mesopotamia began.
What is 3000 B.C. and 4500 B.C.?
This was important to the economy and agriculture of both Ur and Mesopotamia.
What are irrigation systems?
The type of religion both Mesopotamia and Ur have.
What is polytheism?
Name of the writing.
What is Cuneiform?
Ur was located here.
Where are the banks of the Euphrates River?
How both Ur and Mesopotamia's trading system worked.
What is bartering?
Ziggurats and their uses.
What are pyramid shaped monuments used as temples?
Main use for writing.
What is Record keeping?
Mesopotamia is located here.
Where are the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?
These people were at the top of the Mesopotamian social triangle.
Who were priests and kings?
The use for temples.
What are religious activities and government.
An earlier method of writing.
What are Pictographs?
What Ur is known as today.
What is Southern Iraq?
These people were enslaved in Mesopotamia.
Who are prisoners of war and foreigners who were bought at slave auctions?
Those in charge did this as a religious custom.
What are temple priests sacrificing animals to the gods.
Meaning of cuneiform.
What is Wedge shaped?
Mesopotamia was known as this.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
The importance of slavery.
What is Building the empire?
The place you go when you die in Mesopotamia.
What is the "land of no return"?
Three example of what cuneiform was used for.
What are medicine, astronomy, chemistry?