Mesopotamia Vocabulary

A skilled craftsperson

• Artisan

• Empire

• Scribe

A group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government

• Empire

• City-State

• Ziggurat

An independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages

• City-State

• Empire

• Town

Method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops

• Irrigation

• Transportation

• Polytheism

A character or picture that stands for an object

• Pictograph

• Cuneiform

• Empire

Belief in more than one god

• Polytheism

• Nomad

• Irrigation

A writer or record keeper

• Scribe

• Nomad

• Empire

System of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings

• Cuneiform

• Ziggurat

• Pictograph

A temple built in the center of a city-state

• Ziggurat

• Empire

• Cuneiform

A person who regularly move from place to place

• Nomad

• Scribe

• Artisan