Mesopotamia Vocabulary

Mesopotamia means

• the land between the deserts
• the land between two rivers
• the land between the oceans
• the land between the city-states

Sumer is the area in ___________ Mesopotamia.

• northern
• southern
• eastern
• western

A means of supplying land with water is a(n)

• cylinder seal
• chariot
• irrigation system
• cuneiform

An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government.

• civilization
• empire
• social structure
• city-state

A culture marked by developments in arts, sciences, government, and socialstructure 

• civilization
• culture
• Sumer
• Ur

A symbol that stands for an object 

• cuneiform
• pictograph
• technology
• scribe

Writing that uses wedge-shaped characters 

• cuneiform
• pictograph
• technology
• scribe

The way a society or civilization is organized.

• status
• ziggurat
• social structure
• culture

Another word for status is

• level
• order
• king
• importance

An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower.

• temple
• ziggurat
• irrigation system
• levee