Mesopotamia Vocabulary

Independent nation

• city-state

• country

• ziggurat

• irrigation

Supplying water to the land

• channels

• irrigation

• sprinkler systems

• dams

Believing in more than one god

• monotheism

• hinduism

• polytheism

• shintoism

Diverse and vast group of states united under one authority

• slavery

• colonialism

• United States of America

• empire

bringing into a nation

• import

• export

• immigration

• emigration

Starbucks in the ancient Forbidden City of China

• profitable

• cultural diffusion

• capitalism

• Dunkin Donuts

Buying and selling

• ads

• sponsorships

• commerce

• commercials

economic status

• upper class

• lower class

• middle class

• social class

Copier

• scribe

• typist

• cheater

• stenographer

Someone involved in trade

• salesman

• merchant

• supplier

• traitor