Mesopotamia Vocabulary Words Unit II

Complex societies that have cities, governments, art, religion, class divisions and a writing system

• Civilization

• Fertile Crescent

• Irrigation

• Job Specialization

An unwritten agreement within a community under which the members most suited perform that occupation

• Civilization

• Fertile Crescent

• Irrigation

• Job Specialization

A process which supplies water to crops by involving walls, waterways, ditches and canals

• Civilization

• Fertile Crescent

• Irrigation

• Job Specialization

A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf

• Civilization

• Fertile Crescent

• Irrigation

• Job Specialization

The land between two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris Rivers)

• Mesopotamia

• Nobles

• Polytheism

• Scribe

An honored position in society who were record keepers

• Mesopotamia

• Nobles

• Polytheism

• Scribe

The belief in many gods

• Mesopotamia

• Nobles

• Polytheism

• Scribe

Belonging to a high class that has special social or political status

• Mesopotamia

• Nobles

• Polytheism

• Scribe

King of Akkadians in northern Mesopotamia

• Sumer

• Social Pyramid

• City-state

• Sargon

City that had its own government and was not part of any larger unit

• Sumer

• Social Pyramid

• City-state

• Sargon