Mesopotamia Vocabulary Quiz
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- Q1fine particles of fertile soilsilt30s
- Q2a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streamsirrigation30s
- Q3an amount that is left over after a need has been metsurplus30s
- Q4a city that governs itself and its surrounding territorycity-state30s
- Q5a belief in more than one godpolytheism30s
- Q6a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the topziggurat30s
- Q7writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft claycuneiform30s
- Q8a person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeperscribe30s
- Q9a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real heroepic30s
- Q10moving or lying in the same direction and the same distance apartparallel30s
- Q11to be made up ofconsist30s
- Q12a large territory or group of many territories governed by one rulerempire30s
- Q13payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender; payment to a ruler as a sign of submission or for protectiontribute30s
- Q14a territory governed as a political district of a country or empireprovince30s
- Q15a group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels; a group of traveling merchants and animalscaravan30s