WH Ch4 test review Mesopotamia

Greek for "land between the rivers"

• Mesopotamia

• city-states

• caravan

• civilization

complex societies that have organized governments, culture, and writing

• astronomer

• Nebuchadenezzar

• civilization

• irrigation

a method that brings water to crops

• Nineveh

• irrigation

• cuneiform

• civilization

has its own government but is not part of any larger unit

• city-states

• astronomer

• irrigation

• province

a form of writing developed by the people of Sumer

• caravan

• civilization

• province

• cuneiform

a group of traveling merchants

• cuneiform

• caravan

• irrigation

• Nebuchadenezzar

The Assyrian Empire's capital city

• Nineveh

• Nebuchadenezzar

• Mesopotamia

a political district

• city-states

• province

• caravan

• cuneiform

one who studies the stars and planets

• astronomer

• Nebuchadenezzar

• Nineveh

• civilization

Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

• Nineveh

• Mesopotamia

• Nebuchadenezzar