1. Mesopotamia Vocabulary
By: Mrs. Padgett

2. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Mesopotamia
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

3. Silt
The fine soil carried by the rivers and deposited by nearby land.

4. Sumer
A region of city- states in Mesopotamia that was home to the first civilizations.

5. City state
A political unit made of a city and its surrounding lands.

6. Cuneiform
The world’s first system of writing.

7. Epic
A long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds.

8. Number System
A system of using numbers for mathematical calculations based on the number 60.

9. Empire
A region with different territories and peoples under a single rule.

10. Plow
A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil & make rows for planting.

11. Wheel
A circular frame or disk that can be solid or spoked.

12. Gilgamesh
King of Uruk, he became a legendary figure in the Sumerian literature.

13. Hammurabi’s COde
One of the world’s first law codes by the ruler Hammurabi.

14. Polytheistic
Believing in many gods.

15. Stylus
A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving.

16. ziggurat
A huge mud-brick “tiered” temple built by ancient Sumerians.

17. Scribe
One of the professional record keepers in early civilizations.

18. Pictographs
Pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing.

19. Calendar
Mesopotamia developed a 12 month calendar.

20. Ur
An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.

21. Fertile Crescent
A region stretching from the Persian Gulf northwest up the Tigris & Euphrates rivers.