Mesopotamia Vocabulary

Mesopotamia Vocabulary

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History

5th - 9th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Large arc of rich and fertile farmland; location of first civilization

Empire

Cuneiform

Fertile Crescent

Ziggurat

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Independent territories that make up a civilization (Sumer, Babylonia, Assyrian)

Polytheism

Empire

Pictographs

Social Hierarchy

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Picture symbols that represented objects/words/phrases

Cuneiform

Ziggurat

Irrigation

Pictographs

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Consists of a city as the political center and all surrounding countryside.

City-state

Empire

Polytheism

Social Hierarchy

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A pyramid-shaped temple - used for religious ceremonies

Surplus

Division of Labor

Polytheism

Ziggurat

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Producing more goods or crops than was needed

  • Used for trade or storage

Cuneiform

Surplus

Fertile Crescent

Silt

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The world’s first system of writing

Used for keeping records on clay tablets

Division of Labor

Silt

Cuneiform

Polytheism

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