Mesopotamia unit test

Question 1

Mesopotamia

Answer 1

located between the Tigris and Euphrates river, “ land between the rivers”, the first civilizations began here

Question 2

Tigris and Euphrates

Answer 2

long river in western Asia that was one of the two great rivers of the ancient region of Mesopotamia

Question 3

irrigation

Answer 3

to water crops by bringing in water from pipes, canals, sprinklers, or other man-made things

Question 4

silt

Answer 4

fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as sediment, especially in a channel or harbor

Question 5

Sumer

Answer 5

ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia region of the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates river

Question 6

city-state

Answer 6

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state

Question 7

ziggurat

Answer 7

a rectangle stepped tower, sometimes surmounted in a temple

Question 8

cuneiform

Answer 8

the first type of writting

Question 9

scribe

Answer 9

one of the few people in town who knew how to read and write

Question 10

Hammurabi

Answer 10

sixth and best-known ruler of the 1st dynasty of Babylon

Question 11

Fertile Cresent

Answer 11

the boomerang-shaped region of the middle east that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations

Question 12

polytheism

Answer 12

the belief in or worship of more than one god