History Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Flashcards

Moving or lying in the same direction and distance apart.

Fine particles of fertile soil.

A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams.

<p>An amount that is left over after a need has been met.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A city that governs itself and its surrounding territory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A belief in more than one god.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To be made up of.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers provided water for drinking and for crops. Also, the flooding of these two rivers made the soil fertile. As a result, agriculture flourished.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rich silt, which helped crops grow, was left behind by floodwaters.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tigris and Euphrates rivers, rain, canals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Sumerian people practiced polytheism, or the worship of many gods and goddesses. The ziggurat was the temple in the Sumerian city that was dedicated to the chief god or goddess of the city.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To protect them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Fertile Crescent is a strip of land extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. Mesopotamia is located in the Fertile Crescent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The upper class consisted of kings, priests, warriors, and government officials. The middle class included merchants, farmers, fishers, artisans. The lower class was made up of enslaved people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Most women ran their households and took care of their children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They invented a writing system to record business dealings and other important events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There were few scribes. Their important work included recording business transactions and documenting Sumerian history and literature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Writing, the wheel, carts, chariot, sailboats, wooden plow, potter's wheel, bronze, mathematics, and astronomy.</p> Signup and view all the answers