The Technology of Mesopotamia

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• Land on a mesa

• The land between the rivers

• Land filled with pots a mania

• It means technology

Why did people decide to settle around "the land between rivers?"

• water

• a lot of people already there

• large mountains

• fish available there

How did they make the use of water more efficient?

• praying to the gods for water

• lots of buckets

• technology of irrigation

• waited for rain to fall

What are aqueducts, a new mesopotamian technology?

• buckets with a lever

• large rivers of water

• small underwater tunnels that carried water

• birds that carried water

What was mesopotamians first form of writing called?

• Stylus

• Hieroglyphics

• alphabetose

• cuneiform

What's another invention that has come from the mesopotamians?

• counting system

• photography

• skate boarding

• books

Why did the Phoenicians routes help others?

• It created paths to travel on

• They would use them for travel

• They exchanged goods, idea, and customs

• They were nearby

What was the Phoenicians solution to the widespread trouble of writing?

• they made better pictures

• the created the alphabet

• they created math

• they made a new modern language