Geography

Question 1

What is Mesopotamia?

Answer 1

A Greek word meaning land between the rivers.

Question 2

Fertile Crescent

Answer 2

A large arc of rich or fertile farmland.

Question 3

Silt

Answer 3

A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile.

Question 4

Irrigation

Answer 4

A way of controlling water for farming

Question 5

Division of Labor

Answer 5

A system that divides people into jobs.

Question 6

Empire

Answer 6

Independent territories that make up a civilization.

Question 7

Two Rivers?

Answer 7

Tigris & Euphrates

Question 8

Social Hierarchy

Answer 8

A system that divides people into classes based on the job of your family.

Question 9

Cuneiform

Answer 9

The world’s first system of writing.

Question 10

Scribe

Answer 10

A job of a person who wrote on clay tablets to keep records.

Question 11

Ziggurats

Answer 11

A pyramid-shaped temple

Question 12

Hammurabi’s Code

Answer 12

The first set of 282 laws created by King Hammurabi.

Question 13

What was King Hammurabi’s code?

Answer 13

An eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth

Question 14

What was the weather in Mesopotamia?

Answer 14

Droughts or floods

Question 15

Flood?

Answer 15

Floods bring fresh soil but are not safe

Question 16

Drought?

Answer 16

Long period of time with no rain and no crops

Question 17

levees?

Answer 17

walls that help control floods

Question 18

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