Mesopotamia Vocabulary

What is Fertile Crescent?

• Where you grow stuff.

• An arc of fertile farmland between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean.

• A place in Mesopotamia

• Land in Mesopotamia.

What is silt?

• Where you can sit and fish.

• A mix of land and sea.

• A mix of rock and fertile soil deposited by river.

• A rock.

What does irrigate mean?

• Supplying water to plants and aid in farming.

• Supplying food to plants and aid in farming.

• To supply water and food to plants.

• To help get water when needed.

What Rivers surround Mesopotamia?

• Tigris River and Euphrates River

• Red Sea River and Tigris River

• Euphrates River and Rea Sea River

• None

Who is Hammurabi?

• A king who was cool.

• A Babylonian King who made the code of laws in the U.S.

• A Babylonian King who made the code of laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia.

• A person who was famous.

What was Mesopotamia's writing system called?

• Handwritting

• Cuneiform

• Scribe

• Print

What is Polytheism?

• A religion that believes in many Gods.

• A religion that is popular.

• A place in Mesopotamia.

• A name of an empire.

A rectangular pyramid with terraces. It was usually used as a religious or government buildings.

• Ziggurat

• House

• Church

• Fast food place.

What is bartering?

• To trade one item for another.

• To borrow something.

• To go to the store.

• To trade and borrow something.

What civilization are we learning about?

• Lerma's civilization.

• Mesopotamia.

• Deming civilization.

• Ancient civilization.