Meso Vocab Quiz

A pyramid shaped temple that worshipped many gods

• irrigation

• ziggurats

• plotheism

A belief in many gods

• rituals

• polytheism

• tribute

Independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages.

• ziggurat

• city state

• civilization

A type of writing made from clay wedge shaped tablets

• cuneiform

• scribe

• polytheism

Large arc of fertile land that made up the world's first civilization

• Mesopotamia

• Fertile Crescent

• Empire

What are the two rivers that Mesopotamia is between?

• Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea

• Persian Gulf and Euphrates River

• Euphrates River and Tigris River

A person who writes cuneiform and is only a man

• empire

• scribe

• transcriber

Word that means to raise crops and farm animals?

• irrigation

• agriculture

• surplus

He was known for writing a set of laws

• Scribe

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

Ruler of the first empire

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Scribe