Mesopotamia Vocabulary

Large arc of rich and fertile farmland; location of first civilization

• Empire

• Cuneiform

• Fertile Crescent

• Ziggurat

Match the following

• planting, growing, and harvesting crops

• domesticate

• to move from one place to another

• agriculture

• to tame animals

• technology

• examples of landforms

• rivers, deserts, forests, mountains

• knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet people's needs

• migrate

A man-made waterway for moving or redirecting water is called...?

• Civilization

• Ziggurat

• Fertile

• Canal

A person skilled at making things by hand

• scribe

• farmer

• artisan

an extreme shortage of food

• irrigation

• silt

• famine

The supply of water to fields using human-made systems, such as levees, dams and canals

• silt

• irrigation

• famine

Consists of a city as the political center and all surrounding countryside.

• City-state

• Empire

• Polytheism

• Social Hierarchy

Producing more goods or crops than was needed which are used for trade or storage

• Cuneiform

• Surplus

• Fertile Crescent

• Silt

The world’s first system of writing

Used for keeping records on clay tablets

• Division of Labor

• Silt

• Cuneiform

• Polytheism

A way of controlling water for farming

• Fertile Crescent

• City-state

• Polytheism

• Irrigation