City-States in Mesopotamia COPY

Question 1

Mesopotamia:

Answer 1

Land between two rivers

Question 2

Silt:

Answer 2

fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor.

Question 3

Cuneiform:

Answer 3

denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
Once this was achieved, ideas and concepts could be expressed and communicated in writing. Cuneiform is one of the oldest forms of writing known.

Question 4

Ziggurat

Answer 4

a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.

Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).

Question 5

City-State:

Answer 5

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.

Question 6

Tigris:

Answer 6

the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia,

Question 7

Euphrates:

Answer 7

the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia, along with the Tigris

Question 8

Zagros Mtns:

Answer 8

long mountain range in Iran, Kurdistan, and southeastern Turkey today, but Mesopotamia back then

Question 9

Fertile Crescent:

Answer 9

the region where the first settled agricultural communities of the Middle East and Mediterranean basin

the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations

Question 10

cultural diffusion:

Answer 10

between Mesopotamia and Egypt. Egypt developed an irrigation system after Mesopotamia.

This is an example of cultural diffusion because some that originated in one are is spreading to new areas

Question 11

dynasty:

Answer 11

a line of hereditary rulers of a country, usually from the same family or business

Question 12

polytheism:

Answer 12

The belief in more than one god