Ancient Mesopotamia

Match the following

• Canals

• a mixture of small rocks and soil

• Fertile Crescent

• a large region of rich farmland near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Silt

• waterways made by humans

• Irrigation

• the method of supplying water to an area of land or crops

Match the following

• Urban

• a political unit with a city and the surrounding area

• City-state

• an area referring to a town or city

• Civilization

• the society, culture, and way of life in a particular region

• Empire

• territories and groups of people under a single rule

• Rural

• an area of countryside, rather than a town or city

Match the following

• Code of laws

• the practice of designing and constructing buildings

• Ziggurat

• a military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender

• Tribute

• wealth sent from one countr to another as a sign that the other is superior

• Architecture

• a collection of written laws

• Siege

• pyramid-shaped temple tower

Match the following

• Division of Labor

•  a person who makes money by selling goods

• merchant

• division of society by rank or class

• Scribe

• a craftsperson

• artisan

• an arrangement in which workers specialize in a particular task

• Social Hierarchy

• writer

Match the following

• Cuneiform

• world’s first system of writing

• Pictographs

• set of letters that can be combined to form words

• Alphabet

•  long poems that tell stories of heroes

• Epics

• picture symbols

Match the following

• Hammurabi

• King of Uruk and protagonist from the Epic of Gilgamesh

• Gilgamesh

• A ruthless military leader who became Emperor know for overseeing Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

• Sargon

• Akkadian leader who established the world’s first empire

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Babylonian king responsible for the Code of Hammurabi, a famous law code