HW#7

1) - Fertile Crescent: The regions curved shape and richness of the land.
- Silt: When a flood leaves a thick bed of mud.
- Irrigation: To dig ditches that carry river water to there fields which allowed a surplus of crops.
- City-State: When each city and surrounding land is controlled.
- Dynasty: A series of rulers from a single family.
- Cultural Diffusion: When a new idea or product is spread from one culture to another.
- Polytheism: To believe in many gods.
- Empire: When several people, nations, and states are under control of one ruler.
- Hammurabi: When the Babylonian Empire reaches its peak during the reign of Hammurabi.

2) Challenges: No way of communicating.
Solutions: Making up writing.

Challenges: No transportation.
Solutions: Making the wheel and the sail.

Challenges: No tools for planting.
Solutions: Inventing the plow.

3) An advantage that is offered from living in a cities is you have no more then one ruler.
Modern cities do offer the same things because we only have one person who runs the cities and that person is the president.

Map Question

1) The Tigris and Euphrates river valleys are located on Mesopotamia.
2) Physical characteristics of this valley is that it over flows from time to time.

Video #1

1) The reason why the Sumerians developed written language is because they had to keep records from the things that would happen in there whole tribes daily lives.

Video#2

1) Cuneiform is symbols that are wedge shaped.
2) The surface they write on are clay tablets. They write on it with a stylus. A stylus grows along the river they cut them from leaves. They write on the tablet while its soft but first they have to pat it to make a smooth surface to write on. Then after there done or have taken up the whole clay they put it under the sun so it gets hard and turns into a hard tablet and lasts long.
3) Some things they drew on were walls and clay.