Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

• A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first cities and societies. The people included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires.

• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.

• Form of relocation involving permanent move to a new location.

Mesopotamia means...

• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• "the land between two rivers"

• Fertile Crescent

• Iraq

Select the two rivers located in Mesopotamia...

• Tigris

• Nile

• Euphrates

• Amazon

Which of these is NOT one of the alternative names for "Mesopotamia"?

• Fertile Crescent

• Cradle of Civilization

• Iraq

• Land between two rivers

a member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.

• Mesopotamian

• Sumerian

• Hunter-Gatherer

• Slaves

a person who moves from place to place

• hunter-gatherer

• Sumerian

• migration

• nomad

Form of relocation involving permanent move to a new location

• migration

• nomad

• hunter-gatherer

• Mesopotamian

Before Common Era

• refers to the time period over 2023 years ago

• refers to the time period within the past 2023 years

Common Era

• refers to the time period over 2023 years ago

• refers to the time period within the past 2023 years

The event that separates BCE and CE in time?

• the beginning of the Akkadian Empire

• the fall of the Roman Empire

• the invention of writing

• the birth of Jesus of Nazareth