Ch.2 part 2

Question 1

Sumer

Answer 1

a powerful city-state in southeren Mesopotamia

Question 2

Akkad

Answer 2

a city-state in northern mesopotamia

Question 3

Uruk

Answer 3

A large sumerian city-state is Mesopotamia

Question 4

Gilgamesh

Answer 4

sumerian king whoses eventures were recorded

Question 5

Sargon

Answer 5

Akkadian king who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule

Question 6

Enheduanna

Answer 6

Daughter of Sargon

Question 7

Ur-Nammu

Answer 7

summerian king who founded the last and most successful dynasty of Ur

Question 8

Shulgi

Answer 8

king of the dynasty of Ur also son of Ur-Nammu

Question 9

Ziggurat

Answer 9

a huge pyramid shaped structure cosisting of a seiries of stacked rectangular platforms

Question 10

Society

Answer 10

an organized community with established rules and tradions

Question 11

Polytheism

Answer 11

the worship of many gods

Question 12

Scribe

Answer 12

a perfessinal writer

Question 13

Cuneform

Answer 13

a form of wedged shaped writing used in acient times

Question 14

Conqure

Answer 14

to defeat

Question 15

Empire

Answer 15

a large territory consisting of many different places under control of a single ruler

Question 16

Dynasty

Answer 16

a ruling family