Lesson 2 Mesopotamia

Question 1

Sumer

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-states of Mesopotamia and formed the worlds first empire.

Question 3

Uruk

Answer 3

a large Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia.

Question 4

Gilgamesh

Answer 4

2700 B.C. Sumerian king whose adventures were recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Question 5

Sargon

Answer 5

2400 B.C.- 2300 B.C. Akkadian king who untie all of 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 high priestess.

Question 7

Ur-Nammu

Answer 7

2200-1099 pope who issued a plea to free the Holy Land Palestine from the Turks, launching the Crusades.

Question 8

Shulgi

Answer 8

2100 B.C. King of the Sumerian dynasty of Ur who was also the son Ur-Nammu

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 traditions.

Question 11

polytheism

Answer 11

The worship of many gods.

Question 12

scribe

Answer 12

A professional 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

dynasty

Answer 16

A ruling family.