Mesopotamia Vocabulary
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- Q 1/27Score 0Rivers that ran through Mesopotamia, between them, was an area known as the Fertile Crescent.29Tigris-Euphrates Rivers
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- Q1Rivers that ran through Mesopotamia, between them, was an area known as the Fertile Crescent.Tigris-Euphrates Rivers30sEditDelete
- Q2An area of land between the Tigris and the Euphrates River in the area of modern day Iraq (Mesopotamia) in the shape of an arc (crescent) that is good for agriculture.Fertile Crescent30sEditDelete
- Q3A geographic region that includes a majority of Western Asia & Egypt; Modern day Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Palestine, & Egypt.Middle East30sEditDelete
- Q4A mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farmingsilt30sEditDelete
- Q5A way of supplying water to an area of land using canals, dams, and waterwheels.irrigation30sEditDelete
- Q6A group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia.Sumer30sEditDelete
- Q7A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countrysidecity-state30sEditDelete
- Q8An ancient city of Mesopotamia known for its wealth and luxuryBabylon30sEditDelete
- Q9A civilization in the area of present day Lebanon near Mesopotamia, creators of the first alphabetic writing systemPhoenicia30sEditDelete
- Q10The division of the people in a society by rank or class.social hierarchy30sEditDelete
- Q11a network of roads along which traders traveledtrade route30sEditDelete
- Q12"the land between the rivers"; an early civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates RiversMesopotamia30sEditDelete
- Q13More food than as needed by a person.surplus30sEditDelete
- Q14Mesopotamia is called this because the earliest people and cultures were located hereCradle of Civilization30sEditDelete
- Q15the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or jobdivision (specialization) of labor30sEditDelete
- Q16Belief in more than one godpolytheism30sEditDelete
- Q17temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipedziggurats30sEditDelete
- Q18A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines. It originated in Mesopotamia.cuneiform30sEditDelete
- Q19The earliest form of writing in which pictures represented word or ideaspictograms30sEditDelete
- Q20A person who writesscribe30sEditDelete
