Vocabulary
Geography
Vocabulary 1
Miscellaneous
People
100
A series of stacked, rectangular platforms.
What is a ziggurat?
100
The study of relationships between physical features, climate and people.
What is geography?
100
Craftspeople such as potters and weavers.
What is an artisan?
100
A long period of time before people had a written language.
What is prehistory?
100
Who led the Akkadian armies through Sumer and conquered many city-states?
What is Sargon?
200
An oragnized community with established rules and traditions.
What is society?
200
The sea located north of Mesopotamia.
What is the Caspian Sea?
200
An area of high, flat land.
What is a plateau?
200
Objects made by people long ago.
What is artifacts?
200
The goddess of healing.
Who is Gula?
300
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
A curved region with rich soil in the Middle East.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
A method for watering crops.
What is irrigation?
300
Moving from place to place.
What is migration?
300
This person had the title of highest priestess in the city-state of Ur.
What is Enheduanna?
400
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
400
An area of flat land.
What is a plain?
400
A complex and organized group of people with a society within a culture.
What is civilization?
400
A site in South Carolina where artifacts were found.
What is the Topper Site?
400
The god of land.
Who is Enlil.
500
A large territory with one ruler.
What is an empire?
500
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Rich soil.
What is fertile?
500
A strait that previously was a land bridge.
What is the Bering Strait?
500
Shulgi.
Who is Ur-Nammu's son.
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