Social Studies Quarter 3 Mesopotamia Vocab Words

Question 1

Mesopotamia

Answer 1

A Greek word meaning land between the rivers.

Question 2

Fertile Crescent

Answer 2

Same thing as Mesopotamia it’s called this because the fertile soil.

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 civilization.

Question 7

Social Hierarchy

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Cuneiform

Answer 8

The world’s first system of written words.

Question 9

Scribe

Answer 9

A kind 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 more goods or crops than was needed.

Question 12

Hammurabi’s Code

Answer 12

The first set of 282 laws created by King Hammurabi.

Question 13

Euphrates and Tigris

Answer 13

The two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia.