Mesopotamia Study Guide

Wheeled, horse drawn cart used in battle

• Ziggurat

• Chariot

• Empire

• Cuneiform

Political unit with a city and the surrounding area

• City-state

• Empire

• Monarchy

• Civilization

Large region of rich farmland near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea

• Nile River Valley

• Great Basin

• Ganges Plain

• Fertile Crescent

Division of society that is based upon one's rank or class

• Hammurabi's Code

• City-State

• Division of Labor

• Social Hierarchy

Type of government where a single king or queen rules a civilization

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Anarchy

Famous collection of 282 written laws that governed Babylonian society

• Cuneiform

• Monarchy

• Hammurabi's Code

• The 10 Commandments

The world's first system of writing

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

• Stylus

• English

Pyramid shaped temple tower

• Chariot

• Surplus

• Ziggurat

• Polytheism

Territories and groups of people from different lands, under a single rule

• Empire

• Fertile Crescent

• Social Hierarchy

• Surplus

More than what is needed

• Irrigation

• Monarchy

• Polytheism

• Surplus