Ch 2 Vocabulary and Map review

This is a method of bringing water to crops?

• Agriculture

• Domestication

• Irrigation

• Civilization

What is a city-state?

• a large area ruled by one person

• a temple for worshipping

• a city and its surrounding territory

• a long river

The largest and most impressive temples.

• ziggurat

• silt

• cuneiform

• Mesopotamia

______ = the belief in many gods/goddesses

• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Theocracy
• Atheism

an official record keeper or writer

• scribble
• scribe
• stylus
• surplus

What is silt?

• long period without rain 
• tiny bits of soil and rock carries by water
• wearing away of soil by water and wind
• the watering of crops

A long poem about a hero and his culture and the history of a nation is called 

• Epic
• Oral tradition
• Fresco
• Short story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

What was the writing system of Sumerians called?

• cuneiform
• hieroglyphics
• Sanskrit
• calligraphy

Which is the Mediterranean Sea?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Which is the Persian Gulf?

• 10
• 3
• 5
• 2