Mesopotamia 2
Terms
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- Pictographs
- pictures that stand for words or ideas
- Middle East
- Where Egypt,Saudi Arabia, Jordan Turkey etc. First hunter gatheres settled
- Catal Huyuk
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a large neolithic town that was an archeologicak site. It had 1000 houses and a population of 5000-6000.It was in the Middle East
6000B.C. - Famine
- A sevire shortage of food that can cause estarvation
- Irrigation System
- a system used originally to get needed water to field sby means of pipees,canals,and ditches
- Bulla and Tockens
- a ball with tockens made by clay used to help them keep track of trading.
- Cuneiform
- wedge shaped ;consisted in 600 symbols ;invented by Sumerians
- domestication
- to tame animals or plants to do what you want
- zigguart
- a type of temple with one room at the top.
- Scribes
- proffesional writers and record keepers
- settled communities
- a group of people that don't travel
- City-state
- a city and sorrounding villages and farmland that it controlled.People had many different jobs.
- Nomads
- one of a group of people who move woth their flock and herds as the season changes to find water and pasture.
- edible Plants
- plants that can be eaten
- Self sufficient
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to provide for oneself without help of others.
Catal Huyuk was
Umm dabaghiyah wasn't - What happened to make humans change to food producers?
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-start watching the plants and animals
-domesticated plants and animals
-mortar and pestle
-surplus -
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Climate of the region
Irrigation System
city-state
artisan
administrators
Bulla and tockens
Nomads
Invaders
Military Leaders -
the land between the rivers
where civilizations beganIn Mesopotamia
hot110,dry,rivers flooded inpredictable
a system used originally to get needed water in the fields by piped, canals, ditches - Hunter -gatherers
- hunted animals and gathered wild food.
- surplus
- extra grain or food
- Agriculture
- growing plants and raising anomals
- Mesopotamia
- the land between the rivers
- Invaders
- warriors that attack other places to take over or to steal goods.
- What made the city of ur different than other civilations?
- Features of city and civilization
- Artisan
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a skilled worker who makes good by hand
EX:
pottery
instruments
games
etc. - Ain MAllaha
- archeological site in the Jordan River VAlley. People settled ther from 1100 B.C.E.
- Umm Dabaghiyah
- a small settlement that archeologist say existed
- Mortar and pestle
- a round object hollowed out in the center to pound grain.
- Neolithic villages and towns
-
settlements in the era of new stone
between 800-500 B.C. - Trade
- exchanging one thing for another
- Sumer
- where civilizations arose.Conteined city-states that became powerful. Southern part of Mesopotamia.,
- Military Leaders
- eventually become kings;led the defense of the city-states
- Fertile Crecent
- a crecebt shaped land that had good soil.MAny settlements were near
- Ur
- ancient city located in Iraq.Were able to farm because of irrigation system.
- Administrators
- managers to organize the building and keeping of canals.At first they were priests.
- Polytheism
-
believe in many gods.
Sumer was polytheism - enviornment
- living and nonliving things that sorround a person or people.
- Climate of the region
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hot (110)
dry
rivers flooded inpredictable - Worship
- to look up to someone ,specially gods