Mesopotamia
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- Q1a flat elevated area of land
plain
plateaucity-state
30s - Q2a large area of flat, open landplain
plateau
administrator
30s - Q3a self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding villages and farmland
artisan
administrator
city-state30s - Q4a person who manages or directs a government or organization
epic nomad
artisan
administrator30s - Q5a worker who is skilled in making a particular product by hand
nomad
artisanepic
30s - Q6A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deedsepic
polytheism
nomad
30s - Q7A person who moves from place to place in search of food
cuneiform
polytheism
nomad30s - Q8belief in more than one god
cuneiform
scribe
polytheism30s - Q9A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables.
scribe
cuneiformcode
30s - Q10A professional writer or record keeper
nomad
astronomer
scribe30s - Q11a nation and the other nations it has conquered; a political unit often made up of several nations under one authority
exile
epic
empire30s - Q12any organized set of laws and rulescode
scribe
cuneiform
30s - Q13enforced absence form one's countryexile
empire
code
30s - Q14A scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky
scribe
astronomernomad
30s - Q15
The climate of the Mesopotamian plain included:
hot, dry weather year around
hot, dry summers with flooding in spring and fall
rain and flooding year around
30s