McGraw Hill: Ch 2 Mesopotamia Lesson 1 & 2

What is an empire?

• A city that governs itself

• A political district

• a group of many lands under 1 ruler

• a village that strikes back

Tribute is

• a forced payment as a sign of surrender

• money that is collected voluntarily

• Katniss Everdeen (really?)

• a city-state

A province is

• a political district

• a city-state

• an empire

• a ziggurat

A caravan is

• a van full of Care Bears

• a group of merchants that travel together to trade

• the vehicle a soccer mom drives in

• a group of artisans that make pottery together

A society marked by developed arts, science, government, and social structure is.....

• Technology

• Polytheism

• Hominin

• Civilization

Cuneiform is...

• Writing that uses wedge-shaped characters

• A natural slab with cave art

• An emoji that stands for an object

• An ancient Mesopotamian temple

Had its own independent government, crops, farmland, and economy

• village

• town

• city-state

• empire

An artisan is

• a government official

• skilled at making things by hand

• known for trading wood.

• a writer, or scribe

What is this picture of?

• a shrine

• a cuneiform

• a ziggurat

• a priest

The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes is

• a scribe

• a civilization

• social structure

• technology