Mesopotamia Graded Activity

The Fertile Crescent is called this because of:

• the bad farmland that was there

• it was so dry, even between the rivers

• rich soil and the shape of the land

• no one being able to live there

An organized group of people that live in an area and work to improve their way of life.

• tribe

• civilization

• region

• city

A way of supplying water to an area of land:

• river

• canal

• desert

• irrigation

The worship of many gods:

• polytheism

• monotheism

• atheism

• Buddhism

A Uruk king who became legend in Sumerian literature:

• Fromesh

• Gilgamesh

• Gargamel

• Arthur

A political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside:

• county

• capital

• city-state

• state

World's first system of writing:

• alphabet

• cursive

• Greek

• cuneiform

Long poems that tell the stories of heroes:

• epics

• stories

• stanzas

• books

A pyramid shaped temple tower:

• pyramid

• tower

• ziggurat

• structure

Land with different territories and people under a single rule:

• country

• empire

• state

• society