Mesopotamia Vocab

The world’s first civilization located in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Southwest Asia. 

The boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations. I

The use and manipulation of a water source to provide water to crops.

An independent city and the surrounding territory that acts as its own country.

The belief in many gods.

A system of writing that started as pictographs and turned into wedge-shaped symbols.

A professional writer.

a rectangular stepped tower, in Mesopotamia, sometimes surmounted by a temple.

Long poems that tell stories of heroes.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Upper Class

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(b) Middle Class

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(c) Lower Class

• Kings/Queens

• Scribes

• people who work for the royals

• slaves

• Artisans

• farmers

• traders

• High Officials

• Priests