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Social Studies, Chapter 3, Mesopotamia & The Fertile Crescent

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Crops grew well in Mesopotamia becuase
farmland was fertile and the water was nearby.
Which 2 land features gave Mesopotamia its name?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Why did Mesopotamians build canals?
To control the river's flow
He was among the first leaders to have a permanent army
Sargon I
What purpose did the wall around a city serve?
To protect inhabitants of the city-state from attack.
Why did city-states fight each other for farmland?
Each city-state wanted to have enough farmland to grow food.
Who served as a link between the Sumerians & the gods?
Priests
Scribes had power in Sumerian society. What can you conclude from this?
People who could read and write were important.
What is cuneiform?
A form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols
tractor
The Sumerian plow is most like the modern day _______.
What did Sargon's empire have in common with other Mesopotamian city-states?
It fought with surrounding city-states
Why were ziggurats tall?
To honor their gods
What was one purpose of cylinder seals?
to mark property.
What technology did Hittites & Assyrians use in battle?
Iron weapons & chariots
The Chaldeans
The first group to rule after Hammurabi.
The resource for which Phoenicia was well known
Cedar wood
The Phoenicicans
Where a group of people that grew in power due to trade rather than from winning battles.
Nineveh
The Assyrian capital.
What was the relationship between trade & the spread of the Phoenician alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet spread along their trade routes.
mountains to the east and west
Which natural obstacle led Phoenicians to use the sea for trade?
iron weapons and chariots
What technology did the Hittites and Assyrians use in battle?
Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar both
Built up Babylon
Persian Gulf
Mesopotamia is an area of land between Asia Minor and the _________?
What factor may have limited the growth of Sargon's empire?
The Syrian Desert did not have enough good farmland.
The army of SARGON
Defeated all city-states of Sumer and conquered Northern Mesopotamia
King GILGAMESH
Became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
The city-state of UR
Rose to power after the death of Sargon the first
Fertile Crescent
A large arc of farmland
Irrigation
A way of supplying water to an area of land
Rural
Countryside
Polytheism
The worship of many gods
Social Hierarchy
A division of society by rank or class
Pictographs
Picture symbols used for written communication
Epics
Long poems that tell the story of a hero
Monarch
A ruler of a kingdom or empire
Chariot
A wheeled horse drawn battle cart
Alphabet
A set of letters that can be combined to form words
architecture
the science of building
Empire
land with different territories under a single rule
silt
a mix of rich soil and small rocks
surplus
more goods than are needed
priests
people who perform religious ceremonies
cuneiform
the world's first system of writing
scribe
a writer
ziggurat
A pyramid-shaped temple tower
People came to work as craftsmen in Mesopotamia because of
division of labor.
Which is an inference about why city-state fought each other for farmland?
Each city-state wanted to have enough farmland to grow food.
canals
Human-made waterways
Social hierarchy
a division of society by rank or class
city-state
A city and it's surrounding country-side
the Hittities
the first group to rule after Hammurabi was
agriculture
Despite the growth of cities, Mesopotamian society was still based on ______________.
Sumerians
In Mesopotamia people called the ______ developed the world's first civilization.
Sargon
The army of _____ defeated all the city-states of Sumer and conquered northern Mesopotamia.
Gilgamesh
A king known as ______ became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
reeds
Sumerians used sharp _____ to make symbols on clay tablets.
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