Download Mesopotamia Textbook Scavenger Hunt

Mesopotamia Textbook Scavenger Hunt
Directions- Search through the pages listed to fin the answers to the questions.
Answers will be graded on right or wrong.
Geography of Mesopotamia (83-86)
The Land Between Two Rivers
What are the names of the 2 main rivers in Southwest
Asia?
Although the climate was semiarid (dry), why could
people still grow crops?
Controlling Water by Irrigation
What were the problems with the floods?
What did farmers begin doing around 6000 B.C.?
What is a drought?
Finding Resources
Why was Mesopotamia easy to invade?
What could Mesopotamians do because they had a
surplus of grain?
The First Civilization (85-95)
The Rise of Civilization
When and Where did the first civilization rise?
Sumerian City-States
What are city-states and how many people lived in
them?
What are the 5 traits of civilization?
What is a Ziggurat and what was it used for?
What were the famous city-states of Sumer?
Changes in Leadership
Who were the 4 main gods of Sumerian Religion?
Why might Sumerians have believed the “underworld”
was a gloomy place?
Life in Sumer (99-103)
Sumerian Society
Who was included in the upper class of Sumerian
society?
Who was in the in-between class?
Who was in the lowest class?
Who did people become slaves in Sumerian society?
How were women treated in early Sumer?
Sumerian Science and Technology
How did plows help early farmers?
How was bronze an improvement over previous tools?
How did the wheel help Sumerians?
How did the Sumerian number system work?
Creation of Written Language
What is a pictograph and how did the Sumerians use
it?
What types of things were written about in Sumerian
written history?
What was the effect of having over 600 cuneiform
symbols?