HomeWork #7

TextBook Questions

Question 1: Define:

- Fertile Cresent: The region’s curved shape and the richness of its land.
-Silt: The floodwater receded, and it left a thick bed of mud.-Irrigation:  They Dug ditches that carried river water to their fields and allowed them to produce a surplus of crops.
-City-Sate: The city and the surrounding land it controlled.-Dynasty: The Series of rulers from a single family.-Cultural Diffusion: The process of a new idea or a product spreading from one culture to another.-Polytheism: The belief in many gods.-Empire: That brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler.-Hammurabi: Is the Babylonian Empire reaches its peak during the reign of Hammurabi.

Question 2: Challenges and Solution:

Challenge: No Communacation
Solution: Writing the Alphabet

Challenge: No Transportation
Solution: Created a wheel and a Sail

Challenge: The water After the Flood Receded
Solution: They dug Irrigation ditches and allowed them to produce a surplus of crops.

Question 3: Avantages:

-The advantages offered in living in a cities offer the people of acient mesopotamia was that we were ruled by only one person.And that person lived in the White House and That person was called the President. Also, each city state functioned as a separate country. Countries protect their citizens.

Map Questions

1: The Tigris and Euphrates river valley were found in Mesopotamia.2: The physical characteristics of this valley is that its connected to Persian Gulf and also the valley runs through Mesopotamia.
Video #1
1:  The Sumerians devolop written language becuase to keep records from year to year such as how much grain each farmer had growen, how much people got as their shared, how much sheep and Cattel they had, how much animals died and were born, also how much everything was given to the god, Etc.

Video #2
1: The symbols is Cuneiform represent webed shaped. And all the symbols were made out of little wege marks.
2: The surface they written on was in clay tablets and with a stylus. First, Pat some clay into a square pancake. Second, Cut the Stylus at the edge and make it sharp. Press the end of the stylus into the clay and start writing. Third, Put the tablet in the sun to dry. Finally, it turns into hard solid stone and lasts forever (Almost forever).
3: Some of the things they drew was on Clay Tablets and Maybe in Walls.