Mesopotamia Word Scramble

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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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