CFA: Mesopotamia

Match the following

• Epic of Gilgamesh

• Made up of city-states

• Ziggurat

• the type of temple that was dedicated to the city's gods

• Sumer

• Oldest epic poem in the world

• Cuneiform

• Knew how to read and write and rose to high government positions.

• Scribes

• The written language of the Mesopotamians

Mesopotamia means ​ ​ (a)   between ​ (b)   .

• land
• rivers
• ocean
• glacier

The ​ (a)   Crescent is an area of land that includes the ​ (b)   and ​ (c)   Rivers.

• Fertile
• Tigris
• Euphrates
• Barren
• Nile
• Amazon

​ (a)   was the king who first required the ​ (b)   to be written on stone pillars.

• Hammurabi
• laws
• Gilgamesh
• options

​ (a)   was a major god in Mesopotamia.

• Anu
• RA
• Odin

The invention of the ​ (a)   helped ​ (b)   with ​ (c)  

• wheel
• Mesopotamians
• transportation
• plow
• chariot
• farming
• irrigation

Put each label where it belongs on the social class pyramid.

a

b

c

d

Priests and government officials

Slaves

King

farmers, tradespeople