Question | Answer |
extra food and supplies | surplus |
money used to improve a country | taxes |
rivers which made Mesopotamia so fertile | Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
large building Sumerians used for religion | ziggurat |
Babylonian leader that is known for creating a set of laws | Hammurabi |
worship of only one god | monotheism |
Sumerian writing | cuneiform |
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sytems that includes ditches, dikes, dams, and canals | irrigation |
tool used to make cuneiform in clay | stylus |
crescent-shaped piece of land that was great for farming | Fertile Crescent |
dirt that clogged irrigation canals | silt |
longest river in Africa | Nile |
first city-state in Mesopotamia | Sumer |
reasons for war in Mesopotamia | people fought over land and water |
low, flat land in Southern Mesopotamia formed by rivers | alluvial plain |
the rule that says the punishment fits the crime PERFECTLY | "eye for an eye" |
continent where Mesopotamia is found | Asia |
examples of things grown on a Mesopotamian farm | wheat, barley, onions |
main reason people settled in Mesopotamia | water for crops |
main way Sumerians got the things they needed | trading |
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modern day Mesopotamia is in... | Iraq, Iran, and Israel |
bits of rock and soil carried or deposited by water | silt |
time when there is very little to no rain | drought (DROUT) |
word used to describe things in a city | urban |
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3 reasons for a surplus of food | fishing, farming, and domestication of animals |
3 things that make up a culture | religion, government, and learning |
Gilgamesh | heroical priest-king from Sumerian city-state of Uruk |
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Mesopotamia | greek for land between two rivers e.g Tigris/Euphrates |
Cradle of civilization | Mesopotamia - world's first civilization occured there |
scribes | maintained and improved record keeping |
4 Hammurabi reforms | irrigation system, tax system, govt. housing, one religion |
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Irrigation | The watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes |
Silt | A mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock carried and deposited by a river |