Mesopotamia Vocabulary

Small particles of soil

• Surplus

• Silt

• Irrigation

Worshipping multiple gods

• Polytheism

• Ziggurat

• Scribe

Political Districts

• Empire

• Province

• Caravan

Forced payments

• Province

• Cuneiform

• Tribute

Groups of traveling merchants

• Caravan

• Astronomers

• Surplus

The Sumerian way of writing

• City-state

• Polytheism

• Cuneiform

A group of many different lands under one ruler

• Province

• Empire

• City-state

A city that has its own, independent government and is not part of a larger governing state

• City-state

• Empire

• province

Digging canals that let water flow from a water source to fields

• Silt

• Surplus

• Irrigation

An extra amount of something

• Surplus

• Tribute

• Caravan