Mesopotamia

Social class is

• a category of people based on wealth or status in society

• wealthy people

• poor people in society

• a social group that gets together often

How did Mesopotamians solve flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

• digging holes

• irrigation

• lost homes in floods

How did Sargon unite or win loyalty with his new Akkadian Empire?

• conquering people

• allowing people to keep their own customs

• trade and money

The order of social class from highest to lowest in Sumer is...__________, _____________ scribes, artisans, scribes, Sumerian Slaves

ox-driven plow, irrigation, cuneiform are examples of...

• technological and cultural innovations

• technology

• cultural change

a religious shrine is inside a....

• temple

• ziggurat

• building

What was between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

• Egyptians

• Mesopotamia

• Mexico

• Iran

Pictographs were the first form of writing which turned into cuneiform.

• True

• False

human made systems that move water to fields to help problem solve the flooding of the rivers

• canals

• the fast rivers

• irrigation

City-States

• There were 12 of these and each governed themselves

• Civilizations

• Empire