mesopotamia

Question 1

silt

Answer 1

fine particles of fertile soil

Question 2

Irrigation

Answer 2

a system of water and crops

Question 3

surplus

Answer 3

extra amount of something

Question 4

bartering

Answer 4

trading

Question 5

city-state

Answer 5

has its own gorvernment

Question 6

polytheism

Answer 6

worshipping many gods

Question 7

cuneiform

Answer 7

a way of writing

Question 8

ziggurat

Answer 8

a large temple

Question 9

scribe

Answer 9

a person who records business

Question 10

epic

Answer 10

a long story

Question 11

empire

Answer 11

where a king or government rules over different groups of people

Question 12

tribute

Answer 12

a payment made to a ruler

Question 13

province

Answer 13

a territory governed as a political district of a country

Question 14

1. In what modern-day country did Mesopotamia begin?

Answer 14

Iraq

Question 15

2. What were the names of the two rivers which surrounded Mesopotamia?

Answer 15

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 16

3. What two major environmental problems did farmers face in dealing with these rivers throughout the year?

Answer 16

spring floods and summer droughts

Question 17

4. How did the Sumerians overcome these “natural” issues with the rivers?

Answer 17

built dams and canals

Question 18

5. What did having extra food allow the Sumerians to do?

Answer 18

trade with other people and do more things than farm

Question 19

6. Explain the concept of a barter economy. Why do you think this type of economy is barely used today?

Answer 19

barter means trade

Question 20

7. Describe a typical Mesopotamian city-state, and how each city-state interacted with one another.

Answer 20

it was shaped in a circle, big wall around it, ziggurat in the middle, city states traded with one another but also fought one another

Question 21

8. Explain the 3 social classes and who was included in each in this society.

Answer 21

High class= priests, kings and scribes
Middle class= farmers, fishermen
Low class= slaves

Question 22

9. Explain 2 reasons why the development of writing was so important?

Answer 22

So people can record things and so people can communicate

Question 23

List at least 4 major contributions/inventions of the Mesopotamians (Sumerians included).

Answer 23

writing
the wheel
chariot
base 60

Question 24

11. List (in order of when they ruled) the names of the empires of Mesopotamia discussed in class.

Answer 24

Sumerians, Akkadians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Hittites, Kassites, Assyrians, and Chaldean empire

Question 25

12. Who was Hammurabi and what was his major contribution to society? Why was this contribution so important?

Answer 25

He was a king and his set of laws was written onto 12 stones and displayed publicly for all to see, the most common being, “eye for eye tooth for tooth”

Question 26

13. Describe the concept of an “eye for an eye.”

Answer 26

if you kille someone, you get killed

Question 27

14. How is Hammurabi’s Code similar to the laws of the United States? How are they different? Provide two explanations for each.

Answer 27

It is similar because we still use some of the rules nd they’re different because back then if you did not follow the rules/broke them you would get killed

Question 28

Why do you this area of Southwest Asia is nicknamed the “Cradle of Civilization?”

Answer 28

for it’s rich soil