Vocabulary
Mesopotamian Life
Religion & Beliefs
Geography
Wild
100
A period of time with very little rainfall
What is drought?
100
Having more than what is needed.
What is surplus?
100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is irrigation?
100
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The earliest form of writing that used pictures to represent words.
What is pictograph?
200
We were the only ones allowed to go to school in Mesopotamia.
Who are upperclass boys?
200
The large temple in the city center.
What is ziggurat?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
300
The sharpened stick/reed used by scribes to write on clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
300
Mesopotamians created the first writing system. This writing system is called what?
What is cuneiform?
300
Each city state had a _____ that protected them from harm.
What is god?
300
I am the body of water to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
A _______ is a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
What is an empire?
400
A community that includes a city and the farmlands that surround it.
What is a city-state?
400
Without the Mesopotamian invention of the ______, we may not have cars, bicycles, or even trains.
What is the wheel?
400
Finish this law : “If a man put out the eye of another man, his __________________.”
What is his eyes shall be put out?
400
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
500
An advanced group of people who live and work together.
What is a civilization?
500
Three reasons why the two rivers were so important to Mesopotamians. 
ANY OF THESE: Travel, trade, water supply, irrigation for crops, fertile land for crops.
500
A Mesopotamian king was supposed to be the head __________.
What is priest?
500
What body of water is located to the East of Mesopotamia
What is The Persian Gulf?
500
The word Mesopotamia means…
What is land between two rivers?
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