Fertile Crescent

A scribe is a

• professional writer

• A grocery store owner

• Mrs. Barile

Scribes were important because

• they kept records of trade, business and marriages

• they made dinner

• they brushed your teeth

Why is the work of the scribes important to us?

• we can learn about every day life.

• we can become professional writers

• we can get married

Two facts about the world's earliest schools in Sumer

• Rich boys (ages 8-15) and to learn to read and write to become a scribe

• Poor boys (ages 1-7) and to learn mathS

The word Mesopotamia means

• The land between the two rivers

• The land between the three rivers

• A messy pot named Mia.

What attracted people to live in the Fertile Crescent?

• easy travel

• rich soil

• cool temperatures

• religious temples

Name the two rivers that were the source of life for the people of Mesopotamia

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Tigris and Nile

• Amazon and Euphrates

• Connecticut and Tigris

The Tigris and Euphrates were known as "rivers of life and death" because

• Life meant water and fish and Death meant floods and washing away

• Life meant birth and death meant death

• Life meant death

Although Sumerian city states shared a common culture and language, how were they independent and different from each other?

• They had different architecture

• They were not allowed to travel between city states

• Each had their own government and king

• They didn't trade with each other.

Sumerian ziggurat was made of terraces, one on top of the other built high up, because

• it was attractive to look at.

• there were many classes of people in Sumerian society

• it was better for growing many kinds of crops.

• Sumerians believed the gods could use it to come down to Earth.