chapter 2...2.2 Mesopotamia

Question 1

Summer

Answer 1

a powerful city-state in southern Mesopotamia

Question 2

Akkad

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Uruk

Answer 3

a large Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia

Question 4

Gilgamesh

Answer 4

Sumerian king whose adventures were recorded in Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 5

Sargon

Answer 5

akkadiann king who united all the city-states of Mesopotamia under his rule forming the worlds first empire

Question 6

Enheduanna

Answer 6

daughter of Sargon and was appointed the hightpriestess

Question 7

Ur-Nammu

Answer 7

Sumerian king who founded the last and most successful dynasty of Ur

Question 8

Shulgi

Answer 8

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

Question 9

ziggurat

Answer 9

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

Question 10

society

Answer 10

an organized community with established rules and triditioins

Question 11

polytheism

Answer 11

the worship of many gods

Question 12

scribe

Answer 12

a perfessional writer

Question 13

cuneiform

Answer 13

a form of wedge-shaped writing used in ancient times

Question 14

conquer

Answer 14

to defeat

Question 15

empire

Answer 15

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

Question 16

dynaty

Answer 16

a ruling family