Mesopotamia
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- Q1Physical obstacles created by nature. They prevent people from getting through to a place. For example: mountains, deserts, oceans, seas.natural barriers30s
- Q2Belief in many gods. Poly = manypolytheistic or polytheism30s
- Q3Stepped pyramid shaped temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses.ziggurats30s
- Q4A small independent state consisting of an urban area and the surrounding farmland. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia, Archaic and Classical Greece, Phoenicia, and early Italy.city-state30s
- Q5A way of supplying fresh water to an area of farmland.irrigation30s
- Q6The two rivers that surround Mesopotamia. These rivers would flood and provide silt that made the soil fertile.Tigris and Euphrates rivers30s
- Q7Curved, like a half moon or a croissant.crescent30s
- Q8An arc (crescent) of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.Fertile Crescent30s
- Q9How people are organized in a society. There is often a hierarchy (rich, middle class, poor) which forms layers—the most powerful on top, the less powerful towards the bottom.social structure (social hierarchy)30s
- Q10Production of plants (farming) and raising animals.agriculture30s
- Q11A system in which people make, exchange and trade things that have value. For example, grain for pottery. Today we use money.economy30s
- Q12An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing.Sumer30s
- Q13A system of writing developed by the Sumerians around 3,000 BC, using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.cuneiform30s
- Q14Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC).Hammurabi30s
- Q15A collection of 282 laws which were enforced under Hammurabi's rule. One of the first examples of written law in the ancient civilizations. Known as the "eye for an eye" laws that had harsh punishments.Code of Hammurabi30s