Geography and Settlement of Mesopotamia Review

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

Curved strip of land that runs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• silt
• Babylon

The division of the people in a society by rank or class

• Domestication
• Social hierarchy
• Surplus
• Trade Routes

More food than as needed by a person.

• Trade
• Domestication
• Surpus
• Irrigation

The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job

• Division of Labor (Specialization) 
• Polytheism
• Work Force
• Domestication of Labor

A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams

• Fertile Crescent
• polytheism
• cuneiform
• irrigation

The Fertile Crescent....

• was a large geographical region
• stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
• was the location where the earliest civilization started
• all of these

The belief in many gods.

• caravan
• empire
• polytheism
• religion

Canals are man-made waterways.

• True

• False

a system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things

• pictographs

• polytheism

• cuneiform