Mesopotamia 11/20/20

Question 1

Rivers: Which rivers are found in Mesopotamia?

Answer 1

The Tigris and Euphrates

Question 2

Rivers: What does the name “Mesopotamia” mean?

Answer 2

It means “the land between two rivers”

Question 3

Rivers: How did the rivers effect the Mesopotamian’s?

Answer 3

It made the land fertile, so it was good for farming.

Question 4

Geography: What is the geography of Mesopotamia like?

Answer 4

Had mountains and dessert surrounding them and two rivers on either side.

Question 5

Geography: How does the geography effect the people who settled there?

Answer 5

It effected them by the when it rained, silt flowed down the mountains into the rivers and the rivers flooded. When they recede they leave behind nutrients that are good for farming.

Question 6

Farming: What is irrigation?

Answer 6

Irrigation is the process of getting water from one place to another.

Question 7

Farming: What types of irrigation systems did they create?

Answer 7

The types of irrigation used canals that connected to basins of water, then they dug ditches that brought the water to the fields.

Question 8

Farming: How did farming influence Mesopotamia?

Answer 8

It influenced it because when they started farming, they no longer had to look for food, so they could settle. They could then make different jobs and focus on other things. Then government formed.They also then had a surplus of food, which made the population grow.

Question 9

What type of food did the Mesopotamian’s had?

Answer 9

They had wheat, barley, rice, beans, meat, milk, cheese, dates, and pomegranates.

Question 10

Farming: How does a surplus of food influence Mesopotamia?

Answer 10

It influenced Mesopotamia because with a surplus of food, the population grew, and different jobs were able to form.

Question 11

The Sumerians: Who are the Sumerians?

Answer 11

The Sumerians were the people who lived in the city-state of Sumer.

Question 12

City-States: What is a city-state?

Answer 12

A city-state is a urban area surrounded by a rural area that is ruled by one person.

Question 13

City-States: What is an empire?

Answer 13

An empire is two or more city-states controlled by one ruler.

Question 14

City-States: How do empires form?

Answer 14

An empire forms by two city-states have a fight and one city-state wins and that city-states ruler then becomes the ruler of both city-states. That ruler might then send people to fight another city-state and conquer it.

Question 15

Religion: What does Polytheism mean?

Answer 15

Polytheism is the belief in more than one god or goddess.

Question 16

Religion: What types of gods did the Mesopotamian’s worship?

Answer 16

They worshiped gods and goddesses that were based on the elements.

Question 17

Religion: How did religion influence the lives of Mesopotamian’s?

Answer 17

It influenced them because the gods and goddesses were their way of explaining the things that happened around them in the world.

Question 18

Religion: What are ziggurats?

Answer 18

Ziggurats are temples that are used to worship a certain god or goddess.

Question 19

Writing: What was the type of writing that the Mesopotamian’s used?

Answer 19

They used Cuneiform.

Question 20

Writing: How did writing influence Mesopotamia?

Answer 20

It influenced Mesopotamia because they now had a way to write down what happened.

Question 21

Writing: What did the Mesopotamian’s write about?

Answer 21

The kept track of taxes, epics, amount of animals, the amount harvested, stories of what happened, etc…

Question 22

Writing: How did the Mesopotamian’s learn to write?

Answer 22

They learned to write by going to school to become a scribe for 12 years.

Question 23

Writing: What did they write on?

Answer 23

They wrote on clay using a reed cut into a sharp point.

Question 24

Writing: What is an Epic?

Answer 24

An epic is a long story or poem about a hero.

Question 25

Writing: Who was Gilgamesh?

Answer 25

He was a person who went on many adventures and fought mythological creatures.

Question 26

Inventions: What types of inventions did the Mesopotamian’s have?

Answer 26

They had farming, chariots, domestication, irrigation, the wheel, and government.

Question 27

Inventions: How did Mesopotamian’s keep track of time?

Answer 27

They kept track of time by using a clock using falling water. They also used a circle divided in 360.

Question 28

Art and Architecture: What forms of art did the Mesopotamian’s have?

Answer 28

They had moziacs, statues, pottery, and jewelry.

Question 29

Art and Architecture: What types of buildings did the Mesopotamian’s create?

Answer 29

They created ziggurats, houses, and places.

Question 30

Art and Architecture: How did social statues relate to to the architecture in Mesopotamia?

Answer 30

It related because the bigger and nicer home you had, the higher social status you had. The smaller, the lower social status.

Question 31

Social Hierarchy: What was the social structure of Mesopotamia?

Answer 31

The social structure was at the top, there was the ruler, then the government officials and priests, then craftsmen and scribes, then farmers, then slaves