Mesopotamia: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5

In which modern day country is Ancient Mesopotamia?

• Iran

• Saudi Arabia

• Iraq

• Syria

A city-state...

• controls the surrounding farmland and villages.

• only controls the area surrounded by the city walls.

• is always part of a larger country or empire.

• doesn't exist in modern times.

What does Mesopotamia mean in Ancient Greek?

• the place with lots of cities

• the place with fierce warriors

• the land of the immortals

• the land between two rivers

Which are the two important rivers of Ancient Mesopotamia?

• the Tigris and Euphrates

• the Nile and Danube

• the Nile and Indus

• the Ganges and Jordan

Which country is the large peninsula of Asia Minor which divides the Mediterranean Sea from the Black Sea?

• Iran

• Turkey

• Egypt

• Iraq

What is silt?

• a game played by people in Ur

• fertile soil good for farming

• a type of fish in the Tigris River

• a type of grain grown in Mesopotamia

What is irrigation?

• human-made ways to water fields, like canals

• a type of radiation found in minerals in the Zagros Mountains

• where freshwater rivers flow into saltwater seas

• a tool for plowing fields

What is a city-state?

• Paleolithic hunter-gatherers who occasionally meet in groups to trade

• a way to water the fields

• a type of religion in Ancient Mesopotamia

• a city that is its own country

What is social class?

• the system of watering the fields for farming using canals

• the name of the religion of Ancient Mesopotamia

• an ordering of a society based on power and wealth

• where Mesopotamian kids learned cuneiform

What was typically the tallest and largest building in a Mesopotamian city-state?

• the king's palace

• the ziggurat

• the irrigation system

• the market for buying, selling, and trading