Mesopotamia Quiz

1. Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers 

2. Mesopotamia is in modern day country of Iraq

3. Fertile soil and a good water source are 2 reasons why the fertile crescent/Mesopotamia was a good place to start a civilization.

4. Domesticating plants so we could grow them wherever we went allowed the first real civilizations to settle. Now food could be stored so you didn't have to move around everywhere.

5. Agriculture is farming and domesticating plants and animals 

6. Primary sources for information about Mesopotamia are Hammurabi’s code and a diary entry of someone who lived there are

7. Hammurabi was important because he was King of Babylon, created Hammurabi’s code, and expanded the Babylonian empire.

8. Hammurabi’s Code significant was significant because it was the first recorded set of written rules/laws

9. The agricultural revolution spurred population growth because with the availability to food more people could be supported

10. In the drier regions, agriculture was only possible with Irrigation Canals

11. The Fertile Crescent is seen as the birthplace of Agriculture 

12. Neolithic period: the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.

13. Migration: movement from one part of something to another. 

14. Nomads: People or group that moves about from place to place,

15. Agricultural Revolution: transition of humans from nomadic hunting/gathering to sedentary agricultural production of domesticated plants and animals

16. Domestication: the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. 

17. Domestic species are raised for food, work, clothing, or medicine

18. Irrigation: the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.