The Sumerians

stretches in a large, crescent-shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

• Sumer

• Mesopotamia

• Fertile Crescent

A wide, flat plain in present-day Iraq (it also means "between two rivers")

• Sumer

• Mesopotamia

• Fertile Crescent

What two rivers is Mesopotamia between?

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Tigris and Lioness

• Euphrates and Amazon

This means to supply water to crops

• levee

• irrigate

• river

a city and its surrounding territory

• city-state

• city

• state

Exchanging goods without using money

• loan

• trade

• barter

worship of many gods

• monotheism

• polytheism

pyramid-shaped temple

• ziggurat

• mandir

• shaolin

system of writing that used triangular shapes that stand for ideas and things

• hieroglyphics

• English

• cuneiform

What was the weather like in Mesopotamia

• humid and hot

• hot and dry

• cold and damp