flash cards on Mesopotamia

Question 1

What does Mesopotamia mean?

Answer 1

The land between the two rivers

Question 2

where do crops usually grow best?

Answer 2

near a river

Question 3

what are the two rivers called

Answer 3

Tigers and Euphrates rivers

Question 4

which river is on the top?

Answer 4

Tigers

Question 5

What is the land where Mesopotamia is called?

Answer 5

The Fertile Cresent

Question 6

What two seas are closet to the arch?

Answer 6

The Persian Gulf and the Asia Minor

Question 7

What was South Mesopotamia?

Answer 7

flat land or dessert

Question 8

What was north Mesopotamia?

Answer 8

rock and mountain

Question 9

how long ago did the hunter-gatherers settle in Mesopotamia?

Answer 9

12,000 years ago

Question 10

Was the flooding of the rivers good or bad?

Answer 10

good because it provides silt and that is rich soil for the crops

Question 11

when were some of the settlements?

Answer 11

7000BCE

Question 12

what did farmers grow?

Answer 12

wheat, barley, and other types of grain.

Question 13

what are other sources of food?

Answer 13

Livestock, birds, and fish were also good sources of food.

Question 14

rural

Answer 14

having to do with the countryside

Question 15

urban

Answer 15

having to do with the city

Question 16

city-state

Answer 16

a political unit consisting of a city and surrounding countryside

Question 17

Gilgamesh

Answer 17

an Urk king who became a legend in Sumerian culture.

Question 18

Sagron

Answer 18

Akkadian emperpor who defeated Sumer and built the world’s first empire

Question 19

empire

Answer 19

land with different territories and people under one ruler.

Question 20

polytheism

Answer 20

the worship of many gods

Question 21

Priests

Answer 21

people who perform religious ceremony

Question 22

social hierarchy

Answer 22

a division of sociology by rank an class

Question 23

true or false the people of Mesopotamia had a surplus of food

Answer 23

true

Question 24

cuneiform

Answer 24

world first system of writing

Question 25

where was cuniform done

Answer 25

on clay tablets

Question 26

pictographs

Answer 26

picture symbols

Question 27

scribe

Answer 27

a writer and record keeper

Question 28

epics

Answer 28

long poem that tell the stories about heroes

Question 29

architecture

Answer 29

the science of building

Question 30

ziggurat

Answer 30

a pyramid-shaped temple tower to make sacrifices to the gods

Question 31

did Mesopotamia have a lot of rain, was it easy to grow crops

Answer 31

no, and so it was hard for them to grow crops

Question 32

silt

Answer 32

a mixture of soil and rocks that come from the bottom of the rivers when they flood

Question 33

fertile crescent

Answer 33

a large arc of rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

Question 34

civilization

Answer 34

an organized group of people (society) that live in an area and work to improve their way of life

Question 35

irrigation

Answer 35

a way of supplying water to an area of land

Question 36

canals

Answer 36

human-made waterways

Question 37

surplus

Answer 37

more of something that is needed

Question 38

division of labor

Answer 38

an arrangement in which people specialize in specific tasks

Question 39

Nebuchadnezzar

Answer 39

the Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

Question 40

who was on the top of the pyramid of people

Answer 40

prisets and rulers

Question 41

who was on the bottom of the pyramid of people

Answer 41

servants/captured slaves

Question 42

Polytheistic

Answer 42

belif in many gods

Question 43

Theocracy

Answer 43

religious leaders also lead government

Question 44

ziggurat

Answer 44

large pyramid-like temple at city’s center

Question 45

what did they create in the math or science category

Answer 45

Used basic math & geometry based on 60 (60 minute hour; 360° circle)

Question 46

when were the Sumerians overtaken?

Answer 46

Sumerians overtaken by Akkadians around 2270 BCE

Question 47

When was Hammurabi the king/ruler?

Answer 47

1792 to 1750 BCE

Question 48

who built the hanging gardens of Babylon

Answer 48

nebuchadnezzar

Question 49

who ruled small farming villiges

Answer 49

the elders or grandparents