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 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 Kind whose adventures were recorded in he Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 4

Gilgamesh

Question 5

Akkadian king who who united all of the mesopotamia city states under his rule,forming the worlds first empire

Answer 5

Sargon

Question 6

Sumerian King who founded the last and most successful dynasty

Answer 6

Ur-Nammu

Question 7

King of the Sumerian dynasty Ur who was also the son of Ur-Nammu

Answer 7

Shulgi

Question 8

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

Answer 8

ziggurat

Question 9

an organized community with established rules and traditions

Answer 9

society

Question 10

the worship of many gods

Answer 10

polytheism

Question 11

a professional writer

Answer 11

scribe

Question 12

a form of wedge-shaped writing used in ancient times

Answer 12

cuneiform

Question 13

to defeat

Answer 13

conquer

Question 14

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

Answer 14

empire

Question 15

a ruling family

Answer 15

dynasty