Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Innovations
Mesopotamia
City-states
100
This is a waterway made by humans.
What is a canal?
100
This is a small, flat piece of clay used for writing.
What is a tablet?
100
This is considered by many to be the greatest gift of the Sumerians.
What is writing?
100
"Mesopotamia" means this.
What is "land between two rivers"?
100
Early houses in city-states were made of these.
What are reeds?
200
This is a building for the worship of a god or gods.
What is a temple?
200
This is another term for low, wet land
What is a swamp?
200
This was another name for the Sumerians' system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
Each Sumerian temple was built around one of these.
What is a temple?
300
This is a person whose job it was to write.
What is a scribe?
300
This is a huge, tower-lie temple.
What is a ziggurat?
300
Tablets were made of this material.
What is clay?
300
The land in the south was called this.
What is Sumer?
300
Each city-state had its own __________________.
What is government?
400
This is a wall that is built to hold back water.
What is a dike?
400
This means to bring water to dry land by means of canals.
What is irrigation?
400
These wheeled objects carried the Sumerian armies during battle.
What are chariots?
400
This occurrence made the soil very fertile.
What is flooding?
400
This was one of Sumer's greatest city-states.
What was Ur?
500
This is an independent city and all the land it controls.
What is a city-state?
500
This is a person who buys and sells goods.
What is a merchant?
500
The Sumerians traded their crops for this material.
What is metal?
500
These are the three large bodies of water located around Mesopotamia.
What is the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Persian Gulf?
500
These were built to honor the gods who watched over the city-states (NOT temples)
What are ziggurats?
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