Mesopotamia vocab

Question 1

City state

Answer 1

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

Question 2

Civilization

Answer 2

The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced

Question 3

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 3

A collection of 282 laws one of the first BUT NOT THE FIRST examples of written law in the ancient world

Question 4

Cuneiform

Answer 4

A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets

Question 5

Euphrates River

Answer 5

A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the southern part of the Fertile Crescent

Question 6

Fertile crescent

Answer 6

A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semi circle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

Question 7

Irrigation

Answer 7

A way of supplying water to a area of land

Question 8

Levee

Answer 8

A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

Question 9

Merchant

Answer 9

A person who makes money by selling goods

Question 10

Pictograph

Answer 10

A symbol that stands for an object

Question 11

Polytheistic

Answer 11

Belief in many Gods

Question 12

Sumer

Answer 12

A group of ancient city states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia

Question 13

Tigris river

Answer 13

A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent

Question 14

Tribute

Answer 14

Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior

Question 15

Ziggurats

Answer 15

Temples built by Sumerians to honor the Gods and Goddesses they worshipped.