social studies

Question 1

beliefs, traditions, and social structures shared by a specific group of people , lanuage religion, holidays, customs, traitions, food

Answer 1

culture

Question 2

an advanced, complex society, governmnet, system of writing, economy, speiclization, etc

Answer 2

civilization

Question 3

land between two rivers

Answer 3

mesoptamia

Question 4

an area of rich farmland extending from the persian gulf to the medditeranean sea into egypts nile delta

Answer 4

fertile cresant

Question 5

why is land so fertile

Answer 5

contains silt (small particles of rich soil and tiny rocks for growing crops)

Question 6

a way of supplying water to an area of land

Answer 6

irrigation

Question 7

human - made waterways

Answer 7

canals

Question 8

an overabundunce of food

Answer 8

surplus

Question 9

what did farmers grow

Answer 9

wheat, barley, and dates

Question 10

large
walls surround it
farmland outside of wall
developed armies to protect

Answer 10

city state characteristics

Question 11

wheels ( used for carts, plow for farming, potters wheel)
sailboat
sanitation ( for sewer systems)
chariot
medicine (developed medicine for treating for wounds/illness
number 60 system
roads
cuneiform
scribes
epics - long poems that tell the stories of heros

Answer 11

sumerians developed

Question 12

society is ranked by class

Answer 12

social hierarchy

Question 13

order of social classes that would appear on the pyramid

Answer 13

1. kings
2. priests
3. merchnats, artisans, traders
4. farmers
5. slaves

Question 14

sargon broke the piece between sumer and akkad to extend the territory. built a new capital and conquered all sumerian city states.
he established the worlds first empire
developed own language
eventually fell apart could not maintain control

Answer 14

akkad

Question 15

military tactics

Answer 15

tight battle formations using a row of sheilds in front of a row of spears.

Question 16

babylonion king who unified his empire by creating a uniform, written code of laws

Answer 16

hammurabi

Question 17

what were laws based on

Answer 17

based on the authority of the king and the gods

Question 18

282 laws used to maintain order - laws ranged on everything from trade, loans , and the theft to marriage

Answer 18

hammurabi code

Question 19

extended their empire throughout the entire Fertile Creasant
used horses and iron weapons in battle
created the first adequets, pipes that brought drinking water from 30 miles away

Answer 19

assyria

Question 20

a strategy in which army soilders camp outside city walls and repeadedly attack it until the city gives up (used in assyria)

Answer 20

utilized siege warfare

Question 21

used celetial navigation - sailed at night over open ocean using the North star
Clonized islands and territories throughout mediterreanean like greece, italy, and north africa
spread their culutre and the alphabet throughout the mediterrean - led to development of many modern languages

Answer 21

phoenicia