Mesopotamia Vocabulary

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

• Alluvial Plain

• Plateau

• Tributary

• Silt

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

• City-State

• Empire

• Civilization

• Ziggurat

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.9

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

• Civilization

• City-State

• Empire

• Deity

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Collection of laws developed by Hammurabi, king of Babylon

• Code of Hammurabi

• Ziggurat

• Polytheism

• Silt

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

A Sumerian system of writing

• Cuneiform

• Ziggurat

• Polytheism

• Tributary

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

A government ruled or headed by a king or queen

• Monarchy

• Patriarchy

• Polytheism

• Civilization

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.9

A society in which men dominate and govern

• Patriarchy

• Monarchy

• Civilization

• Tributary

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.9

The worship of or belief in more than one god

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

• Deity

• Monarchy

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.4.9

A temple tower having the form of a step pyramid

• Ziggurat

• Scribe

• Plateau

• Deity

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

• Tributary

• Monarchy

• Patriarchy

• Scribe

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A