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Mesopotamia 12
fertile cresent facts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nomadic people were people who? | moved from place to place and hunted and gathered |
| how was the behavior of nomads regulated? | unwritten customs |
| how did ancient people progress in social organization? | clans to villages to city-states to empires |
| the first civilizations developed near these two rivers. | Tigris and Euphrates. |
| why did they develop near the rivers? | flooding left silt that made the land good for farming |
| how did farmers cope with flooding | irrigation and flood control |
| what was the name of the place that gave birth to ancient civilizations | Mesopotamia |
| what do all civilizations need to survive | resources |
| what was the first civilization | sumer |
| what are the five key elements | government,religion,public works,social classes/jobs, writing |
| meaning of polytheistic | many gods |
| how did Hebrews differ | one god |
| most important religious duty | keep gods happy |
| what were temples called | ziggurat |
| what was on top of the ziggurat | a shrine to chief god or goddess |
| why did they build large palaces | to make people believe the strength and power of the rulers and gods |
| what was the claim ancient rulers had to claim authority | the will of the gods |
| what does it mean when we say rulers in ancient world were hereditary leaders | leadership passed from father to son |
| what caused conflicts | they competed for control of land and water |
| what developed as a result of the need to control rivers,collect taxes, and build public works. | the first centralized governments |
| list three groups of people who developed in the fertile crescent | Sumerians,medes, Persians,Hittites |
| what tasks did the first organized governments perform | write laws,collect taxes, provide food supply, and maintain defense |
| why were first laws written | to regulate the behavior of people who were now strangers to one another cities |
| in the ancient world who was trained to read and write | scribe |
| what did ancient people invent to record grain harvests and keep accurate records of the seasons | writing |
| how did ancient rulers use public works to ensure the cities food supplies? | built irrigation systems, roads, and bridges and kept records of harvests |
| how did they uses public works to defend themselves | built city walls around the city to protect it from attack |
| how did cities change the way people worked | people specialized in jobs for the first time |
| why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations | surpluses in food meant that not everyone had to search for food |
| ranking people according to their jobs led to this | the development of the first social classes |
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