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Mesopotamia -- Achievements

Mesopotamia -- Achievements

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7th Grade

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Caitlin Irwin

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13 Slides • 24 Questions

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Mesopotamia -- Achievements

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Multiple Choice

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Which two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia? 

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Tigris and Euphrates

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Jerico and Nile 

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Draw

Trace the two rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia? 

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Draw

Circle the body of water that Euphrates and Tigris River flow into.

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Multiple Choice

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Sumer is in______ Mesopotamia

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Northern

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Southern

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Eastern

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Western

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Multiple Choice

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The Tigris and the Euphrates Rives flow into:

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Red Sea
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Persian Gulf
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Black Sea
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Mediterranean Sea

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Multiple Choice

What continent was Mesopotamia on?

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Africa

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Asia

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North America

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Multiple Choice

Where was Mesopotamia located?

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Iraq

2

United States

3

Egypt

4

Italy

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Multiple Choice

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What part of Asia was Mesopotamia on?

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Arabian Peninsula

2

Island of Japan

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Central Asia

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Multiple Choice

What is a peninsula?

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land surrounded by water on two sides.

2

land surrounded by water on three sides.

3

a type of island.

4

a flat area of land with no water nearby.

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Multiple Choice

The Sumerians believed in:

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one god

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two gods

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many gods

4

no gods

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Multiple Choice

The belief in many gods is called:

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Monotheism

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Polytheism

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Religion

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Multiple Choice

What is a ziggurat?

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A farm house.

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A temple.

3

A store.

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A storage place.

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Agricultural Inventions

  • Irrigation: Canals that carry water from rivers to farmland.

  • Bronze: A mix of copper and tin, much stronger.

  • Plow and funnel: Allowed farmers to plow and plant at the same time.

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  • ​Farmers need to control water supply for larger crop yields.

  • Brick dams were designed to block water from flooding and to store water during the summer.

  • The ​blocked water would be collected in multilevel pools called reservoirs.

Irrigation

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Multiple Choice

What is irrigation?

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Irrigation is the method of harvesting crops after they have grown.
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bringing water from rivers to grow crops.

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rain from the sky

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the process of planting seeds in the ground.

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Building

  • Sumerians may not have had a lot of metal or wood available, but they did have a lot of one thing... MUD!!

  • It was cool in the summer, warm in the winter.

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Building

  • Ziggurats - top level: Shrine for the city's special god.

  • Next: Palace for the king & Houses for the priests

  • Bottom level: Shops, Homes, Workshops

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Multiple Choice

The Mesopotamians built with....

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mud

2

wood

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water

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metal

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Open Ended

How do ziggurats show that religion was important to the Sumerians?

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Transportation - Land

  • World's oldest wheels were found in Mesopotamia - 3500 BC.

  • First to attach wheels to carts to make 2 and 4 wheeled carts pulled by oxen or donkeys

  • Traders led caravans of donkeys using these carts.

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Multiple Choice

What did Mesopotamians attach to carts (hint - they were the world's oldest)

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chairs

2

boxes

3

wheels

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flags

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Multiple Choice

Who invented the wheel?

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Sumerians

2

Egyptians

3

Indians

4

Americans

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Transportation - Water

  • Earliest boat was shaped like a basket and built from reeds and animal skins

  • Because of the mast and sail, we think it is the world's first sailboat

  • They also had canoe-shaped boats guided with poles

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Multiple Select

What TWO achievements supported transportation in Mesopotamia?

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Wheel

2

Engine

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Sail

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Oars

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Writing

  • Pictures of things that acted as words.

  • Cuneiform: Wedge-shaped symbols for objects and ideas.

  • Few people knew how to write, so scribes were needed to record information

  • There were 700 symbols, each representing a different sound!

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Open Ended

How did prehistory end?

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Multiple Choice

Cuneiform is...

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a form of fancy cooking

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a dance to attract a mate

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a way of writing

4

a way of singing

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Multiple Choice

True/False: Everyone could write in cuineiform.

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True

2

False

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The sundial is the oldest known device for the measurement of time

It uses the shadows from the sun to tell the time of day.​

The Sundial

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  • Metalworkers melted copper and tin to make the strongest metal at the time - bronze.

  • ​They poured the liquids into molds and let it harden.

  • Bronze was used to make strong weapons, reliable tools, and beautiful jewelry. ​

Metalworking

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Open Ended

What do you think was the most important advancement? Why?

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Multiple Choice

Ancient Sumerians had a written language.

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true

2

false

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Multiple Choice

Review:

What is the system that Mesopotamians used to get water from the rivers to their crops?

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Irrigation

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Crop rotation

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Plowing

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Farming

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