Ancient Mesopotamia Vocab

A river that flows into a larger river

• Silt

• Alluvial Plain

• Tributary

• Irrigation

A high, flat area of land

• Ziggurat

• Plateau

• Alluvial Plain

• Amanac

A low, flat land formed from fine soil left behind by streams

• Silt

• Irrigation

• Plateau

• Alluvial Plain

Soil and tiny rocks carried or deposited on land by floodwaters

• Tributary

• Irrigation

• Silt

• Caravan

A city and the farm lands around it

• City-state

• Monarchy

• Ziggurat

• Empire

Government in which a king or queen rules

• Tributary

• Polytheism

• Monarchy

• Empire

The supply of water to land or crops to help growth

• Caravan

• Silt

• Innovation

• Irrigation

A belief in many gods

• Code of Hammurabi

• Deity

• Monarchy

• Polytheism

A group of traders traveling together on a long journey

• Tributary

• Caravan

• Almanac

• Cuneiform

A new way of doing things

• Innovation

• Irrigation

• Code of Hammurabi

• Cuneiform