Unit 7 Review - Mesopotamia

What is a monarch?

Dividing people into jobs to accomplish tasks in order for the civilization to be successful:

Who developed one of the first sets of written laws in the world?

A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks:

What region stretched from the Persian Gulf and up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

What does Mesopotamia mean?

A pyramid-shaped temple tower:

What is the name for the temples built throughout Mesopotamia?

What is NOT one of the characteristics of a civilizations?

What caused ancient people to develop writing?

Human-made waterways used for navigation or farming:

What does it mean to say that the people of Sumer were polytheistic?

The division of society by rank and class ex: highest-ranking at the top, lowest at the bottom)

The world’s first system of writing:

What is silt?

Long poems that tell stories of heroes:

A way of supplying water to an area of land:

Was the set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life:

Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it:

A large arc of rich, or fertile farmland:

What was a positive effect of the river floods in Mesopotamia? 

What is the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? 

Producing more goods/crops than was needed: extra used for trade :

What is the wedge-shaped writing system developed in Sumer?