Mesopotamia Vocabulary

Large level area of land made up of sediment left by flooding streams or river

• Alluvial Plain

• Plateau

• Tributary

• Silt

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.W.6.2D

A self-governing state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory 

• City-State

• Empire

• Civilization

• Ziggurat

A well-organized society with writing, art, science, and political and religious systems

• Civilization

• City-State

• Empire

• Deity

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

Collection of laws developed by Hammurabi, king of Babylon

• Code of Hammurabi

• Ziggurat

• Polytheism

• Silt

A Sumerian system of writing

• Cuneiform

• Ziggurat

• Polytheism

• Tributary

A government ruled or headed by a king or queen

• Monarchy

• Patriarchy

• Polytheism

• Civilization

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

A society in which men dominate and govern

• Patriarchy

• Monarchy

• Civilization

• Tributary

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

The worship of or belief in more than one god

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

• Deity

• Monarchy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

A temple tower having the form of a step pyramid

• Ziggurat

• Scribe

• Plateau

• Deity

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

A stream that flows into a larger stream or into a body of water

• Tributary

• Monarchy

• Patriarchy

• Scribe

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A