Mesopotamian Social Classes

Reorder the following. Put the person on top of the social pyramid first.

• Priest

• King

• Farmers

• Enslaved people

• Scribe

Match the following to their job.

• made laws

• King

• traded with other cities

• Artisans

• made things that were traded (pottery)

• Merchants

• wrote down information

• Scribe

• made sure there was enough crops

• Farmers

What was the written language of Mesopotamia called?

• ziggurat
• scribe
• hieroglyphics
• cuneiform

Religious temples that look like pyramids but the sides look like stair steps.

• ziggurat
• artisan
• cuneiform
• hieroglyphic

These people were skilled workers who made clothes, pottery, and metal products.

• scribes

• Akkadians

• Sumerians

• artisans

These were people who learned how to write and got jobs keeping records.

• scribes
• akkadians
• sumerians
• artisans

What is a city-state?

• an independent kingdom or state made up of a city and the surrounding lands it controls.

• a city inside a state

• a state in Mesopotamia

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• a flat top mountain

• Land of the free

• Land between two rivers

• home of the brave

What is a ziggurat?

• a squiggly line

• a stitch on a sewing machine

• a place in Mesopotamia to shop

• an ancient religious structure that resembles a pyramid.

What is a social pyramid?

• a religious building for the priest to live in

• a way for people within the city-state to communicate

• a way of illustrating the social organization of a particular society.