Mesopotamia Vocabulary Review

The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed early civilizations

• Fertile Crescent

• Cuneiform

• Civilization

• Irrigation

Early Sumerian writing system on clay tablets

• Fertile Crescent

• Cuneiform

• Irrigation

• Civilization

System of laws created out of the conquests of Hammurabi based on the principal "an eye for an eye"

• Fertile Crescent

• Irrigation

• Hammurabi's Code

• civilization

Complex Societies

• civilization

• artisan

• agriculture

• city-state

man made way of watering crops

• Irrigation

• fertile crescent

• Artisan

• Agriculture

A city and its surrounding lands

• artisan

• city-state

• fertile crescent

• cuneiform

a skilled worker

• fertile crescent

• agriculture

• artisan

• scribe

A Sumerian writer and record keeper

• Artisan

• Scribe

• Agriculture

• Cuneiform

A group of lands under one ruler

• city-state

• empire

• fertile crescent

• cuneiform

The two rivers in which the first known civilizations, the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia, developed

• Nile and Euphrates

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Fertile Crescent

• Agriculture