Practice our Mesopotamia Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| An area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began | Fertile Crescent
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| Finely ground fertile soil that is good for growing crops | Silt
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| A way of supplying water to an area of land | Irrigation
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| A human-made waterway | Canals
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| A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside | City-State
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| Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule | Empire
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| The worship of many gods | Polytheism
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| The world’s first system of writing; developed in Sumer | Cuneiform
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| Long poems that tell the stories of heroes | Epics
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| The science of building | Architecture
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| A pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer | Ziggurat
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| The division of society by rank or class | Social Hierarchy
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| A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle | Chariot
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| a type of market found especially in Middle Eastern countries that has rows of small shops which sell many different kinds of things | bazaar
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| trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money | barter
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| a set of laws that governed the life in the Babylonian empire; oldest deciphered writings- consists of 282 laws | Hammurabi's Code
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| Laws which were etched onto stone tablets in cuneiform | Precept
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| King of Neo-Babylon who was responsible for the construction of the hanging gardens, city walls, gates and temples | Nebuchadnezzar
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| One of the wonders of the ancient world; constructed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Neo-Babylon because his wife missed her homeland | Hanging Gardens
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| All members of a society must obey the law | Rule of Law
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