Mesopotamia Vocab quiz

Use the map to answer this question. Which landform covered most of ancient Mesopotamia?

• the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley

• the Caspian Sea

• the Nile River

• the Syrian Desert

Which of these is a major source of fresh water in Mesopotamia?

• Assyria
• Euphrates
• Sumer
• Nile

When you dig a ditch in the ground to bring water from a river to another place.

• cuneiform
• artisan
• scribe
• irrigation

When each city has its own king, its own government, its own army, its own way of doing things.

• ziggurat
• city-state
• civilization
• empire

Religious temples that look like pyramids but the sides look like stair steps.

• ziggurat
• artisan
• cuneiform
• hieroglyphic

Which two rivers flowed around Mesopotamia?

• Tigris and Euphrates
• Nile and Yellow
• Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf
• Yellow and Yangtze

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State

• Country

• Villiage

• Culture