Mesopotamia

Peasants lived in

• huts

• houses with two floors

• temples

• walls made of mud or adobe

The rivers overflowed

• in July

• at the beginning of the summer

• at the end of the summer

• in huge terraced towers

Whats is the meaning of “Mesopotamia”?

• land along the rivers

• land between the river Tigris and Euphrates

• land between rivers

• land between clay and straw

Then inhabitants of Mesopotamia were polytheistic, what means that...

• they believed in many gods

• they believed in a couple of gods

• they believed in one god

• they didn’t believe in gods

The wall was protected by

• slaves

• scribes

• soldiers

• priests

Mesopotamia was the first civilization that

• created governments

• created slaves

• created soldiers

• believed in gods

Merchants were very important because

• they protected the cities

• they were blacksmiths

• they wrote contracts

• they brought products from other places

Mesopotomia could grow as civilization because

• the slaves wrote laws or contracts

• they could observe the stars

• they were polytheistic

• the river overflowed and the harvests were bigger

Mesopotamia is also called the ....

• cradle of civilisation

• cradle of markets

• ziggurat city

• land along the river Nile

School was for ...

• richest scribes

• richest merchants

• richest boys

• richest peasants