GW Mesopotamia vocabulary

A raised structure built to carry water over a distance

• levee
• canal
• aqueduct
• empire

______ = the belief in many gods/goddesses

• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Theocracy
• Atheism

What are the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia?

• Thames and Erie
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Tangeer and Elephantus

An area of very good land that stretched from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean Sea

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent 
• Fertile Chestnut
• Famous Crescent

King of Kish who created the first empire in history

• Gilgamesh
•  Hammurabi
• Sargon
• Sourgoat

Group of lands and people ruled by one government

• empire
• umpire
• city-state
• ziggurat

a system of canals or ditches to bring water to crops

• irritation
• immigration
• erosion
• irrigation

an official record keeper or writer

• scribble
• scribe
• stylus
• surplus

Babylonian kind known for his code of law

• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Wasabi

Very fertile soil deposited by a river

• dirt
• mud
• stilt
• silt