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  • What Mesopotamian invention made planting seeds easier?
    the plow
  • Who came first, Sumerians or Babylonians?
    Sumerians
  • What 3 things lead to growth in Mesopotamia?
    clean water, a good climate, and good soil for farming
  • A ziggurat is-
    a temple
  • Homes and buildings in Mesopotamia were built out of -
    mud bricks
  • Directing water to fields to help crops to grow is-
    irrigation
  • Sumerian writing was called
    Cuniform
  • Mesopotamia is located in what is present day -
    Iraq
  • What are people called who move around to find food and who do not live in a settled location?
    Nomads
  • Punishments under Hammurabi's Code varied depending on the person's -
    social class or status
  • Why was the Mesopotamia called the Fertile Crescent?
    The land is in the shape of a crescent
  • city-states fought each other to gain -
    land, especially good farm lands
  • What is one Mesopotamian invention used around the world, every day?
    wheels
  • True or false- Sumerians came up with the concept of dividing time into units.
    True
  • What was the punishment for a son that struck his father?
    The son could lose his hands
  • The number behind Sumerian math is
    60
  • Life could be more difficult when settled, because settled people had to -
    defend their lands, homes, and possessions.
  • What was the largest structure in a city-state?
    the ziggurat
  • Under Hammurabi's Code, who would receive better treatment, a farmer or a priest?
    a priest
  • The towns in the Fertile Crescent were called
    city states
  • What metal is created by combining copper and tin?
    Bronze
  • What is it called when animals are tamed for human use?
    Domestication
  • Sumerian writing was called
    Cuniform
  • What neighboring country also practiced art and writing, although in a different style?
    Egypt
  • What two rivers formed the fertile crescent?
    Tigris and Euphrates
  • Mesopotamian people spent less time just trying to survive and more time -
    making art (writing poems, crafting pottery, weaving cloth)
  • What was the Sumerian nickname for themselves?
    "Black headed ones"
  • What is left behind after a river floods?
    Silt
  • Why is Mesopotamia called "The Cradle of Civilization"?
    Mesopotamians created many ideas that guided the development of other civilizations / birthplace of cultural ideas
  • Hammurabi's Code helped keep order and structure. Today these sort of rules are called -
    laws
  • Built around city-states
    walls
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