Mesopotamia -- Achievements

Mesopotamia -- Achievements

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Multiple Choice

Which two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia? 

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Jerico and Nile 

Draw

Trace the two rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia? 

Draw

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

Multiple Choice

Sumer is in______ Mesopotamia

• Northern

• Southern

• Eastern

• Western

Multiple Choice

The Tigris and the Euphrates Rives flow into:

• Red Sea
• Persian Gulf
• Black Sea
• Mediterranean Sea

Multiple Choice

What continent was Mesopotamia on?

• Africa

• Asia

• North America

Multiple Choice

Where was Mesopotamia located?

• Iraq

• United States

• Egypt

• Italy

Multiple Choice

What part of Asia was Mesopotamia on?

• Arabian Peninsula

• Island of Japan

• Central Asia

Multiple Choice

What is a peninsula?

• land surrounded by water on two sides.

• land surrounded by water on three sides.

• a type of island.

• a flat area of land with no water nearby.

Multiple Choice

The Sumerians believed in:

• one god

• two gods

• many gods

• no gods

Multiple Choice

The belief in many gods is called:

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Religion

Multiple Choice

What is a ziggurat?

• A farm house.

• A temple.

• A store.

• A storage place.

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.

• ​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?

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

• rain from the sky

• the process of planting seeds in the ground.

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.

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

Multiple Choice

The Mesopotamians built with....

• mud

• wood

• water

• metal

Open Ended

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

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.

Multiple Choice

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

• chairs

• boxes

• wheels

• flags

Multiple Choice

Who invented the wheel?

• Sumerians

• Egyptians

• Indians

• Americans

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

Multiple Select

What TWO achievements supported transportation in Mesopotamia?

• Wheel

• Engine

• Sail

• Oars

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!

Open Ended

How did prehistory end?

Multiple Choice

Cuneiform is...

• a form of fancy cooking

• a dance to attract a mate

• a way of writing

• a way of singing

Multiple Choice

True/False: Everyone could write in cuineiform.

• True

• False

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

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

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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?

Multiple Choice

Ancient Sumerians had a written language.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Review:

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

• Irrigation

• Crop rotation

• Plowing

• Farming