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Mesopotamia
World History Chapter 4 study guide for Mesopotamia
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| city-state | a city and all the countryside around it |
| polytheism | the worship of many gods |
| Fertile Crescent | rich, fertile farmland in the shape of an arc in the Middle East |
| silt | soil left after flooding that's good for farming |
| irrigation | a way of supplying water |
| canals | human-made waterways |
| surplus | more food and other items than needed |
| civilization | a society that has developed systems of government, religion, and learning |
| Mesopotamia | What means 'between the rivers' in Greek? |
| Tigris and Euphrates | What forms the "Cradle of Civilization? |
| near rivers | In what general kind of area did early people settle? |
| Persian Gulf | Mesopotamia lies between Asia Minor and the __________ ___________. (what gulf) |
| Mediterranean Sea | The Fertile Crescent extends from the Persian Gulf to the ___________ _________. (what sea) |
| food surplus | Irrigation systems caused a ____________ ______________. |
| canals, dams, and levees | What was built to aid in protecting the land from flooding? |
| Hunter-gatherers | What kind of group first settled in Mesopotamia? |
| barter | trading one product for another without the use of money |
| Sumer | a land in Mesopotamia where the world's first civilization grew. |
| ziggurat | the highest building in the city-state, built as a temple to the gods |
| domesticate | changing plants and animals to make more useful to man |
| agriculture | farming; the domestication of plants |
| drought | a long period of dry weather |
| famine | widespread lack of food because of drought |
| Sargon the Great | Leader of the Akkadians |
| scribes | The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what? |
| archologists | Who excavated the areas and found the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia? |
| cuneiform | A form of writing by the people of Sumer |
| Iron | What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger? |
| The Hanging Gardens | Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? |
| Nebuchadnezzer | The Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon |
| astronomer | Who is a person who studies the stars and planets called |
| Hammurabi | Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life? |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Ancient Mesopotamian poem about a king and hero who travels the world. |
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