Mesopotamia Vocabulary

a self-governing city, often with surrounding lands and villages

• ziggurat

• empire

• city-state

• Ramona

a group of different lands and people governed by one ruler

• city-state

• empire

• ziggurat

• levee

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

• Empire

• Cuneiform

• Fertile Crescent

• Ziggurat

Picture symbols that represented objects/words/phrases

• Cuneiform

• Ziggurat

• Irrigation

• Pictographs

What is a drought?

• belief in more than one god/goddess

• A time when there is little or no rain

• government where a king rules with absolute power

• A large temple that is pyramid-shaped

He was known for writing a set of laws that tried to achieve justice in government

• Mr. Jackson

• Sargon the Great

• Principal Ellis

• Hammurabi

A mixture of small rocks and soil that is good for growing crops.

• Fruity Pebbles

• Scribe

• Silt

• Irrigation

Belief in many gods.

• Cuneiform

• Ziggurat

• Hammurabi's Code

• Polytheism

Mesopotamian writing system

• Cuneiform

• Scribe

• Texting

• Ziggurat

What is a civilization?

• The city in Asgard

• a waterway built across land for navigation or irrigation

• an advanced state of development that has cities, arts, religion, government, social classes, writing, etc..

• A large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader.