Ancient Civilization & Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is known as

• The land between the oceans

• The land between the city

• the land between the rivers

• the land between the capital

The fertile land between the Tigris & Euphrates

• River Nile

• Southern Peninsula

• Mesopotamia

• Fertile Crescent

First Civilization and collection of city-states

• Ziggurat

• Turkey

• Sumer

• Israel

The Sumerian numeric system included :

• Trigonometry & multiplication

• Geometry & Algebra

• Calculus & Division

Oldest written language

• Hieroglyphics

• sign language

• Spanish

• cuneiform

_______ created Cuneiform

• Sumerians

• Egyptians

• Africans

• Aborigines

What is it called when ideas are spread from one place to another?

• Caste systems

• migration

• segregation

• Cultural Diffusion

Monotheism

• Belief in one God

• Belief in systematic thoughts

• Free will

• Belief in octo beliefs

Polytheism

• Belief in many wives

• Having many political beliefs

• Having a difference in belief in culture

• Belief in many Gods

Class

• A classification used to place people in society

• An idea adopted by Indians

• A royal lineage of people who are rich