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CHSderekMesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who were the people who settled in Mesopotamia about 3,500 B.C.? | Sumerians |
| What were the Sumerian's area of Mesopotamia known as? | Sumer |
| "Land Between Rivers", means what? | Mesopotamia |
| The fertile area around Mesopotamia is called...? | Fertile Crescent |
| Sumerians learned to control what? | The twin rivers |
| The twin rivers were? | Euphrates and Tigras |
| What would the rivers leave behind? | Levees |
| What was the chief crop? | Bartley |
| Sumer had very little of what? | Timber |
| What did they use to make bricks | Mud and reeds |
| One of the great cities was? | Ur |
| What was made up of the city and farmland around it? | City-state |
| The cities were surrounded by a wall with a bronze gate to keep what out? | Lions and Bandits |
| What was located in the middle of Mesopotamia? | Ziggarut |
| Who were allowed in the Ziggaruts? | Priests |
| What surrounded the Ziggaruts? | Courts |