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7thgradehistorytest3
Mesopotamia stuff
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| empire | a large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single ruler or goverment |
| pictograph | a symbol that stands for an object |
| polytheism | the belief that there are many gods |
| ziggurat | an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top |
| cuneiform | writing that uses wedgeshaped characters |
| scribe | a person who writes |
| epic | a long poem in dignified language that tells the story of a hero |
| economy | the way a region or country uses resources to provide and sell or trade goods and services to meet people's needs and wants |
| six characteristics of civilization | geographic boundries and political institutions, economy that produces a food surplus, concentration of population in distinct areas or cities, existence of social classes, developed culture, a system of record keeping |
| middle east bodies of water | red sea, medditerranean sea, black sea, caspian sea, persian gulf, tigris river, eupharates river |
| roles of priests in early city-states | ruling city-states, running irrigation canals, storing grain surplus in temples, distributing it during droughts/hard times, collecing taxes, praying, and making sacrifies |
| land in the north | plateau |
| land in the south | plain |
| climate problems ancient sumerians faced | hot summers, little rain, parched and dry land, unpredictable flooding, few resources |
| positive feature | rich soil spread by flooding |
| lugal-gal | big man, military leaders that eventually became king |
| geograhic boundries and political institution | zagros mountains (east), arabian peninsula (desert, west), empire, city-state, priests ruled, before kings, lugal-gal became kings |
| economy that produces a food surplus | irrigation; invention of plow and wheel; crops grown: wheat, barley, figs, berries, and dates; led to specialization of labor (and vice versa) |
| concentration of population | civilizations worked together to keep irrigation canals clear; rivers drew people in, source of fresh water; fertile cresent; trade easier because of less travel |
| existence of social classes | priests, before kings (highest); lugal-gal to king; goverment officials, scribes; merchants, traders, artisans; farmers; slaves (lowest) |
| well developed culture | ziggurat, arch, polytheism, priests, each city-state had one god, epics |
| system of record keeping | scribes, cuneiform (1st written language), pictographs, record of rivers flooding, literature, history |
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