Mesopotamia

Question 1

Mesopotamia:

Answer 1

“land between two rivers” and “cradle of civilization”

Question 2

2 rivers Mesopotamia is between

Answer 2

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 3

What brought silt that made the ideal land for farming?

Answer 3

Annual flooding

Question 4

Fertile Crescent

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an area of rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and into Egypt’s Nile delta.

Question 5

Mesopotamia is located mostly in present-day…

Answer 5

Iraq

Question 6

Why is land so fertile?

Answer 6

Contains silt

Question 7

Farmers used what to control the flow of water from the rivers?

Answer 7

canals, dikes, and dams

Question 8

Irrigation

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A way of supplying water to an area of land

Question 9

Canals

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Human-made waterways

Question 10

Surplus

Answer 10

An overabundance of food is called a

Question 11

Farmers grew what?

Answer 11

grain (wheat), barley, and dates

Question 12

Division of Labor

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Specialization where people had skilled and/or specialized jobs

Question 13

Who helped contribute to the economic success of the city-state?

Answer 13

Merchants, artisans, and traders

Question 14

Sumerians developed the world’s…

Answer 14

first civilization.

Question 15

Sumer was made up of many political units called?

Answer 15

city-states.

Question 16

A city-state

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a political unit that consists of a walled city with rural areas of land (farms) on the outskirts of the walls.

Question 17

What played a huge role in their civilization?

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Religion

Question 18

Sumerians were…

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Polytheistic which means they believed in many gods

Question 19

Priests had a high social status because…

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they performed religious ceremonies to gain the gods favor

Question 20

A ziggurat is?

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a temple tower, rose above each city and was the focal point of the city-state.

Question 21

City State Characteristics

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Large walls surround it, farmland outside of wall, developed armies to protect

Question 22

Sumerians developed…

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Wheels, Sailboat, Sanitation, Chariot, Medicine, Number 60 system (time) mathematics, Roads, Cuneiform - first writing system

Question 23

Wheels

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Used for carts and wagon, plow for farming, Potter’s wheel

Question 24

Sanitation

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Sewer systems

Question 25

Medicine

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Developed medicine for treating for wounds/illness

Question 26

Cuneiform

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Use symbols called pictographs, they used clay tablets and a stylus

Question 27

Scribes

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Writers, who kept track of items people traded and wrote down government records.

Question 28

Epics

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Long poems that tell the stories of heroes.

Question 29

Social Hierarchy

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Kings, Priests / Military Commanders, Merchants, Artisans, Traders (Skilled Workers), Farmers (Unskilled Workers), Slaves (Conquered People)

Question 30

Empires of the fertile crescent

Answer 30

Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Phoenician