Mesopotamia Review
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- Q1a flat elevated area of landplateau30sEditDelete
- Q2a large area of flat, open landplain30sEditDelete
- Q3a self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding villages and farmlandcity-state30sEditDelete
- Q4a person who manages or directs a government or organizationadministrator30sEditDelete
- Q5a worker who is skilled in making a particular product by handartisan30sEditDelete
- Q6A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deedsepic30sEditDelete
- Q7A person who moves from place to place in search of foodnomad30sEditDelete
- Q8belief in more than one godpolytheism30sEditDelete
- Q9A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables.cuneiform30sEditDelete
- Q10A professional writer or record keeperscribe30sEditDelete
- Q11a nation and the other nations it has conquered; a political unit often made up of several nations under one authorityempire30sEditDelete
- Q12any organized set of laws and rulescode30sEditDelete
- Q13enforced absence form one's countryexile30sEditDelete
- Q14A scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the skyastronomer30sEditDelete
- Q15The Climate of the Mesopotamian plainhot, dry weather year roundrain and flooding year roundhot, dry summers with flooding in spring and fall30sEditDelete
- Q16The ancient Sumerians handled climate problems byharvesting crops at a different time of the yearcreating an irrigation systemgiving up farming for other occupations30sEditDelete
- Q17At first, the ancient Sumerians city-states were ruled byadministratorsnomadspriests30sEditDelete
- Q18Military leaders rose to power as kings in in the Sumerian city-states because theyconquered the city-statesbuilt walls to keep out invadersprotected the city-states from enemies30sEditDelete
- Q19Who developed and made an organized system of laws?Shamshi-AdadSargonHammurabi30sEditDelete
- Q20Who created the word's first empire?SargonShamshi-AdadHammurabi30sEditDelete