Mesopotamia Test Review Lessons 1-4

This means “between the rivers” in the Greek language?

This is the belief in many Gods.

This is an upper-class job recording information.

This word means a payment or gift to a stronger power.

The written language of Mesopotamia used triangle shaped symbols to stand for an idea or thing.

This is the belief in one God.

This means an army of professional soldiers.

In cuneiform, Sumerian scribes used what to represent words, sounds, or ideas?

• Wedge-shaped symbols

• The first Alphabet

• Numbers

The term Mesopotamia refers to land between.

• Sumer and Egypt

• the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

• Uruk and Ur

Another term for a city and the surrounding land it controls is.

• Kingdom

• Nation State

• City-state