1. Mesopotamia: The Land Between the Rivers
Mr. Ornstein
Willow Canyon High School

2. Answer???
Why is it good for students to know their student handbook? How does it protect you from teachers and administrators?

3. What does Mesopotamia Mean?
Land Between the Two Rivers
Greek
Between the Tigris and Euphrates

4. Where is Mesopotamia? Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Modern Day Iraq
Part of the Fertile Crescent

5. Arc of Fertile Land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
Fertile Crescent
Arc of Fertile Land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
Rich Soil and Abundant Crops Made It Possible to Sustain the Earliest Civilizations

6. Fertile Crescent

7. Crescent NOT Croissant

8. The Oldest Cradle of Civilization
Mesopotamia Was the Oldest Cradle of Civilization
The First Cities Developed in Mesopotamia

9. Location not Civilization
Mesopotamia is a Location and Not One Single Civilization
A Number of Different Civilizations Lived in Mesopotamia

10. Who Lived in Mesopotamia??
Sumerians
Babylonians
Assyrians
Persians

11. The Sumerians
3000 BC
Separate City-States (City that is its own country)

12. The Sumerians
Cuneiform-one of the earliest forms of writing
Ziggurats- pyramid like structures
First Cities
Mud Brick Walls
Irrigation Systems

13. How was Cuneiform like Egyptian Hieroglyphics?

14. Ziggurats

15. Mesopotamians Were Polytheistic
Mesopotamians Believed in Many Gods.
City-States Worshipped Their Own Gods
Ziggurats Were to honor the God of the City-State

16. Babylonians Great Ancient City of Babylon
One of the First Large Empires in History
Great King Hammurabi
First Law Code

17. Code of Hammurabi First Known Written Law Code 282 Laws
“Eye for an Eye”
Unequal Penalties for Rich and Poor

18. Sargon of Akkad Created First Empire
Empire-Large Amount of Land or People under One ruler

19. How are city-states different from Empires?
Answer
How are city-states different from Empires?

20. Achievements of Mesopotamia
First Civilization
First Cities
First Law Codes
Epic of Gilgamesh-one of the first great books
Cuneiform
Ziggurats
The Wheel
First Empire
Irrigation Systems
Mud Walls
Achievements in Math and Science

21. Answer for Collection Which Achievement is most significant and why?
Why is Hammurabi’s Code Important?
What two geographic features made life possible in Mesopotamia