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Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mesopotamia is between what two rivers? | Tigris and Euphrates |
| Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means | between two rivers |
| What was the climate like in Mesopotamia | hot and dry |
| How did farmers in ancient Mesopotamia deal with the farming problem? | they built leeves to control the floods and they also built different types of irrigation systems |
| What made farming a challenge in Mesopotamia? | hot dry climate was mixed with seasonal flooding |
| What four products were ancient Mesopotamians able to grow once they had their flooding under control? | Wheat, barley, sesame and flax |
| Mesopotamia was actually an ______ not a ________ | area ; civilization |
| Mesopotamia was composed of several independent ______-______. | city - states |
| Each of these city - states had their own _____,_____,_____, and _______. | religion, laws, language and governement |
| Some of the cultures that have existed in the areas know as Mesopotamia were ___,___, ___ and ____. | Sumeria, Assyrai, Babylon and Iraq |
| Who were the first people to live in Mesopotamia? | Sumerians |
| Why did the Sumerians move to Mesopotamia? | To take advantage of the fertile soil |
| Why were some Sumerians able to become tradesman, merchants, and artisans? | Because they had a stable food supply and not everyone was needed to farm, hunt or fish |
| What did the Sumerians call their country? | Sumer |
| What important invention have the Sumerians been given credit for? | the invention of the written language |
| Why did the Sumerians invent the written language? | so that they could keep records |
| The Sumerians didn't write with letters; they used _____ called ______ | pictures called pictographs |
| What were professional writers called? | scribes |
| What did these professional writers write on? | Clay tablets with a stylus |
| Eventually, the pictures were replaced by shapes and lines. What was this type of writing called? | cuneiform |
| What 5 other items did the Sumerians invent? | wheel, water clock, 12 month calendar, plow and sailboat |
| The Sumerian number system was based on what number? | 60 |
| We still use the Sumerians system of measuring _____, which is also based on the number ___. | time ; 60 |
| Between 3500 and 2000 B.C. the Sumerians were living in large villages, but when they became move prosperous (rich) the villages developed into _________city-states. | self - governing |
| 3 reasons why the Sumerians used sun-dried mud bricks to build their homes | 1. there was no building stone 2. there was very little timber in Sumer 3. the rivers were a great source for mud |
| What 3 types of people lived in two - story homes? | priests, wealthy and merchants |
| Religion was important to the Sumerians, and in the center of each city-state was a temple called a _______. | Ziggurats |
| Ziggurats, were like huge ______ with terraced sides that were _____ on top. | pyramids ; flat |
| Sumerians had many _____ whom they believed spoke to them through their _______. Because of this, priests had a great deal of _____ and they were most like _______. | gods; priests ; power; kings |
| What was the one great disadvantage of living in Mesopotamia? | the land didn't provide any natural protection from invaders |
| What was one group that moved in to Sumeria? | Akkadians |
| The Akkadians were Semitic because they spoke a _____language. This language is similiar to the languages of _____ and _______. | Semitic ; Arabic ; Hebrew |
| Where did the Akkadians form their own country? | where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were close together |
| Whose culture did the Akkadians mostly adopt? | Sumarians |
| What eventually happened to Sumeria? | it was absorbed by invaders |
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