Geography Flashcards
(18 cards)
What is Mesopotamia?
A Greek word meaning land between the rivers.
Fertile Crescent
A large arc of rich or fertile farmland.
Silt
A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile.
Irrigation
A way of controlling water for farming
Division of Labor
A system that divides people into jobs.
Empire
Independent territories that make up a civilization.
Two Rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates
Social Hierarchy
A system that divides people into classes based on the job of your family.
Cuneiform
The world’s first system of writing.
Scribe
A job of a person who wrote on clay tablets to keep records.
Ziggurats
A pyramid-shaped temple
Hammurabi’s Code
The first set of 282 laws created by King Hammurabi.
What was King Hammurabi’s code?
An eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth
What was the weather in Mesopotamia?
Droughts or floods
Flood?
Floods bring fresh soil but are not safe
Drought?
Long period of time with no rain and no crops
levees?
walls that help control floods
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