Mesopotamia

A system of canals, dikes, and dams for bringing water to crops.

• a channel
• irrigation
• caravan
• raising crops

Nickname for the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

• marsh land
• fertile soil
• fertile crescent
• babylon

An area which governs itself and its surrounding territories

• empire
• village
• civilization
• city-state

The belief in many gods

• Christianity
• religion
• polytheism
• monotheism

River that runs through Mesopotamia

• Euphrates
• Nile
• Ebla
• fertile crescent

A written system of laws

• justice
• code
• book of rules
• Hammurabi

A pyramid-shaped temple found in Mesopotamia

• Great Pyramid
• Zoaraster
• Ziggurat
• Parthenon

In order to build a civilization, you must first have 

• education
• roads and bridges
• surplus food
• laws

Hammurabi's laws were carved on a stone

• stele
• tablet
• sculpture
• rock face

An event when a river overflows its banks

• irrigation
• flooding
• drought
• surplus