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6SS_Mesopotamia
Smith - Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the first thing the Sumerians did to create a civilization? | they got really good at farming |
| What was the practice of taming and raising wild animals called? | domestication |
| What does Mesopotamia mean? | land between the rivers |
| Between what two rivers were these people located? | Tigris & Euphrates |
| Why was the soil so good? | regular flooding of the river dumps good dirt on the land |
| What did the people build to deal with the river flooding, destroying their crops and lack of rain in the summer? | levees |
| What is a levee? | a built up river bank to keep the river from flowing over onto the land |
| What did the people create to irrigate the land from the river to the fields? | ditches |
| How did the people let the water in from the ditches to irrigate the land? | opened a gate to the ditch |
| What did they create to plant crops? | a plow |
| What did they create to help measure time? | a calendar |
| What was each each month represented by in the sky? | 12 different constellations |
| What were these 12 constellations together known as? | the Zodiac |
| Who would these groups of stars to determine what month it was? | the priests |
| What was the system of writing invented by the Sumerians? | clay tablets |
| What was the stick they used for writing called? | a stylus |
| What was the Sumerian style of writing called? | cuneiform |
| Who was the first ones to write down their laws? | the Sumerians |
| What did the Sumerians write down before anyone else? | their laws |
| What was one of the best technical things invented? | the wheel |
| What did the small villages in Sumer eventually develop into? | city states |
| What did each city state have? | a king |
| What was each city state also dedicated to? | a god |
| What was the temple to the god of the city called? | ziggurat |
| What was another name for a person who worked as a writer called? | a scribe |
| Who were the most important people in the city? | the King and his family |
| Who were the next most important people below the King and his family | the priests |
| What is the most important thing the people's tax money to the king pay for? | it feeds and pays the King's army |
| What did the Sumerian writing start out looking like? | pictures |
| What did the pictures eventually develop into? | symbols |
| What does cuneiform mean? | wedge-shaped |
| What were the stories called that the Sumerians liked to write down? | myths |
| What story did the Sumerians also have that was like a story from the Bible? | the great flood and the ark |
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