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mesopotamian
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What modern countries can be found where Mesopotamia was once located? | Kirkuk,Baghdad,Ramadi,Edible |
| Describe the Geography of Mesopotamia? | A river and a lot of mountains |
| A river and a lot of mountains | A region/a place |
| What two bodies of water go through the Fertile Crescent? | Tigris and Euphrates river |
| What do the two rivers leave on the land to help crops grow? | silt |
| Explain the importance of the rivers to the development of society in Mesopotamia? | It would help their crops grow not only with the water but also with the silt as a fertilizer |
| What forms of irrigation were used in Mesopotamia? | Punishments justice and torture |
| What was a ziggurat? | A place on top of the temple in the middle of the city where the god of that city town would live |
| What is a merchant? | Some one that sells things or materials also trades and even travels to trade |
| What is a division of labor(specialization)? | slaves |
| Where was Hammurabi king and what is he known for? | In mesopotamia and bringing the code of Hammurabi that was given to him by the sun god shamash. |
| What is a city-state? | The city's back in mesopotamia/ what they would call state and they always a there own god watching over them. |
| Explain why this region was called Mesopotamia, yet no one called themselves Mesopotamian? | Because it was in the fertile crescent and then they slowly after one guy did called himself mesopotamians that lived in mesopotamia |
| What is Cuneiform? | it was a form of writiing |
| Describe some accomplishments or inventions from Mesopotamia? | The wheel the hammurabi code the seeder plow,cuneiform,the calendar |