mesopotamia

Question 1

silt

Answer 1

fine particles of fertile soil

Question 2

irrigation

Answer 2

to water plants from canals

Question 3

surplus

Question 4

in what modern day country did mesopotamia start in

Answer 4

iraq

Question 5

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

Answer 5

euphrates and tigris

Question 6

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

Answer 6

summer droughts and spring floods

Question 7

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

Answer 7

canals

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Answer 11

high class was warriors king and queens, middle class was farmers priests and traders and lower class was slaves

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

if you do something bad then they will do it to you

Question 16

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

Question 17

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