Mesopotamia Vocab

A craftsperson

• City- State

• Code of Laws

• Artisan

• Empire

An early city that was like a small independent country

• Cuneiform

• Scribe

• Ziggurat

• City-State

A collection of written laws

• Empire

• Code of Laws

• Silt

• Irrigation

A writing that uses wedge shaped characters. The writing system that the Sumerians invented

• Cuneiform

• Empire

• Artisan

• Ziggurat

A means of supplying land with water

• City-State

• Scribe

• Irrigation

• Artisan

A person who writes

• Scribe

• Merchant

• Ziggurat

• City-State

Fine particles of rock

• sand

• silt

• sugar

• salt

An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with a shrine at the top. Built to honor the gods

• Scribe

• Ziggurat

• Cuneiform

• Irrigation

Mesopotamia means "land between two_______________"

• Citys

• Mountains

• Seas

• Rivers

What are the names of the 2 rivers

• Amazon and Nile

• Euphrates and Nile

• Euphrates and Tigris

• Tigris and Amazon