SS CH 4 Mesopotamia

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  1. Mesopotamia is located in the Middle East or Near East
  2. Mesopotamia is also referred to as the Fertile Crescent
  3. The area Fertile Crescent is referred to that name because of the area's fertile soil and fertile soil &its shape
  4. The Fertile Crescent was created by two rivers _____ & ______. Tigris River & Euphrates River
  5. The Tigris River and Euphrates Rivers flooded annually, depositing ______ into the riverbeds around them silt
  6. This silt helped to ________________the land fertilize
  7. ___________developed the first civilization in the world Mesopotamia
  8. The first civilization is referred to them as the Sumerian civilization
  9. Farmers could not live close to the rivers because they would flood regularly
  10. To make up for water scarcity, _____________dug a system of canals Sumerian farmers
  11. The canals carried __________ from rivers to farms. water
  12. These canals were the world's first irrigation system
  13. Sumerian people ____________ animals such as cows, sheep, and donkeys. domesticated
  14. These animals provided resources like meat, milk, and wool
  15. To make transportation faster, Sumerians invented the wheel
  16. Eventually they created wagons and _________for domesticated animals. plows and harnesses
  17. Early Sumerians used tools made of ______ or _______ which often broke. clay or copper
  18. They experimented with _______ to make bronze metallurgy
  19. The tools that were sturdier and hardly ever broke were the bronze tools
  20. The Sumerian farmers produced a stable food supply and food surplus irrigation, domestication, invention of the wheel and plow
  21. Because of the stable food supply and food surplus fewer people had to _______ to survive farm
  22. Major economic growth occurred when Sumerians began to specialize
  23. _____ and _____ learned skills to produce goods for trade weavers and potters
  24. ______ and _____ made tools and built houses. metal workers and brick layers
  25. The transportation of goods was made easier by _________ wheeled carts
  26. Merchants used _______ or _______ to pull carts of goods between Mesopotamia and city-states. oxen or donkeys
  27. Each city-state had its own ___________ monarchy
  28. The _____ of each city-state had control over all things. king
  29. Kings usually came from a ruling family
  30. Sumerian people worshipped more than one god which means they were polytheists
  31. Sumerian people built temples called ______ ziggurats
  32. The first writing system is called _______ and is a pattern of wedge-shaped symbols. cuneiform
  33. The oldest written story in the world is called The Epic of Gilgamesh
  34. King Hammurabi governed the First Babylonian Empire
  35. Hammurabi introduced a written code of laws called The Code of Hammurabi
  36. Which reflects on the idea of "an eye for an eye", a "tooth for a tooth"

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