Mesopotamian Civilization terms

Artisan

• A skilled crafts person.

• Complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system.

• One of the boundaries of Mesopotamia.

• Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings.

city-state

• Complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system.

• Independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages.

• Group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government.

• Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings.

Complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system

• Civilization

• Cuneiform

• Tigris River

• Artisan

Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings.

• city-state

• Irrigation

• Cuneiform

• Scribe

Empire

• Group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government.

• Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings.

• independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages.

• Complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system

Method of bringing water to a field to water crops.

• Irrigation

• Artisan

• city-state

• Tigris River

Scribe

• independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages.

• Complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system.

• Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings.

• Record keeper.

One of the boundaries of Mesopotamia.

• Scribe

• Empire

• Tigris River

• Civilization