Mesopotamia

Question 1

Mesopotamia

Answer 1

A Greek word meaning land between the rivers.

Question 2

Fertile Crescent

Answer 2

A large arc of rich or fertile farmland.

Question 3

Silt

Answer 3

A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile.

Question 4

Irrigation

Answer 4

A way of controlling water for farming

Question 5

Division of Labor

Answer 5

A system that divides people into jobs.

Question 6

Empire

Answer 6

Independent territories that make up a territories.

Question 7

Social Hierarchy

Answer 7

A system that divides people into classes based on the job of your family.

Question 8

Cuneiform

Answer 8

The world’s first system of writing

Question 9

Scribe

Answer 9

A job of a person who wrote on clay tablets to keep records.

Question 10

Ziggurat

Answer 10

A pyramid-shaped temple.

Question 11

Surplus

Answer 11

Producing goods or crops than needed

Question 12

Hammurabi’s Code

Answer 12

The first set of 282 laws created by King Hammurabi.

Question 13

Rivers

Answer 13

Euphrates river and Tigirs river

Question 14

Farming

Answer 14

Its rich soil

Question 15

Floods

Answer 15

They had floods or droughts