Mesopotamia Study Guide

3. Forced payment by conquered people to the people who conquered them.
4. Goods and services traded for other goods and services.
5. The belief in many different gods.
7. Official record keeper who could read and write.
10. Crescent fertile land that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
13. People worked on specific jobs that their talents allowed.
15. A long poem that tells a story of a hero.
16. a system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay.
18. Group of hunter-gatherers who moved from place to place to find food.
19. Sumerian step pyramid with a temple at the top built to honor a god.
20. Means New Stone where people began to grow food on a regular basis.

1. a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory.
2. Man-made ditches and canals that supplies water to dry land.
6. Means the land between two rivers (Tigris and Euphrates Rivers).
8. A group of many different territories governed by one ruler.
9. 'Old Stone Age' that lasted form 4.2 million yrs. ago to 8000 BC when the first tools were invented.
11. Anything that people need or want.
12. To tame animals for human use.
13. When farmers grow extra amounts of food and stored for later use.
14. Organized growing of food on a regular basis.
17. Type of government led by king or queen to defend against enemies and made laws to keep order.