2-2 Mesopotamia

Question 1

a powerful city-state in southern Mesopotamia

Answer 1

Sumer

Question 2

a city-state in northern Mesopotamia, the ruler of which conquered all of the city-states of Mesopotamia and formed the world’s first empire

Answer 2

Akkad

Question 3

a large Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia

Answer 3

Uruk

Question 4

2700 b.c Sumerian king whose adventures were recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 4

Gilgamesh

Question 5

2400 b.c - 2300 b.c Akkadian king who united all of the city-states of Mesopotamia under his rule, forming the world’s first empire

Answer 5

Sargon

Question 6

2330 b.c daughter of Sargon and was appointed the high priestess of Ur

Answer 6

Enheduanna

Question 7

2200 b.c - 2100 b.c Sumerian king who founded the last and most successful dynasty of Ur

Answer 7

Ur-Nammu

Question 8

2100 b.c king of the Sumerian dynasty of Ur who was also the son of Ur-Nammu

Answer 8

Shulgi

Question 9

a huge, pyramid-shaped structure consisting of a series of stacked, rectangular platforms

Answer 9

ziggurat

Question 10

an organized community with established rules and traditions

Answer 10

society

Question 11

the worship of many gods

Answer 11

polytheism

Question 12

a professional writer

Answer 12

scribe

Question 13

a form of wedge-shaped writing used in ancient times

Answer 13

cuneiform

Question 14

to defeat

Answer 14

conquer

Question 15

a large territory consisting of many different paces under the control of a single ruler

Answer 15

empire

Question 16

a ruling family

Answer 16

dynasty