Mesopotamia from Nomads to Farmers
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- Q1domesticationThe taming of wild animals and plants is called...30s
- Q2the Tigris and EuphratesThe two rivers that make up Mesopotamia30s
- Q3They created levees to hold back the river waterHow Mesopotamian farmers dealt with flooding rivers30s
- Q4scribesThis group of people wrote and recorded what happened in ancient Sumer30s
- Q5agricultureWhat do we call the raising of crops and animals?30s
- Q6siltA mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock carried and deposited by a river30s
- Q7land between the riversWhat "Mesopotamia" means30s
- Q8southernmost Mesopotamia, "land if civilized kings"Sumer30s
- Q9the plow, the wheel and writingSumerian inventions30s
- Q10stylusSumerian tool for writing30s
- Q11cuneiformSumerian style of writing30s
- Q12city-stateA self-governing city and its surrounding area30s
- Q13zigguratbuilding in a Sumerian city-state that houses the temple30s
- Q14polytheismThe belief in many gods and goddesses30s
- Q15tradeAn exchange of goods and services30s