Mesopotamia Vocabulary

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• The land between to lakes

• The land between two rivers

• The first recorded society

• Babylon in Sumerian language

What two rivers was Mesopotamia located between?

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Nile and Kwango

• Tigris and Nile

• Nile and Euphrates

What does the word "Cuneiform" mean?

• Sumerian style of literature

• Wedge shaped

• Clay tablets that supported writing

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

What were the religious buildings in Mesopotamia called?

• Churches

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Ziggurats

Match the following

• A religion that believes in one god

• Monotheism

• A religion that believes in many gods

• Monarchy

• Kings or Queens that pass power down to their children

• Polytheism

• A city that is an independent nation

• Theocracy

• Rulers were appointed by gods

• City-State

Hammurabi's punishments were based off the idea of...

• Punishment brings peace

• An eye for an eye

• If you build me a house that breaks you owe me your life

• Innocent until proven guilty

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Sargon
• Cyrillian
• cuneiform
• hieroglypics

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Ninevah

Grand temple with a shrine at the top

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes