Mesopotamia Vocabulary

3. a region of SW Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
4. of Gilgamesh – an epic poem from Mesopotamia
5. – denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
6. - a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
10. – the artificially applied water to land to assist in the production of crops.
13. – relating to or denoting a form of social organization in which a woman is the head.
14. – a county side area as opposed to a city.
15. – a hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a record and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.
18. –a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple
19. – A Sumerian 'house of tablets', a place of learning where archives and literature were stored on clay tablets.
20. – a sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.

1. – a political system of an independent city
2. – an area of fertile land in the Middle East.
7. – an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority.
8. hierarchy – A fundamental aspect of social organization that is established by fighting or display behavior and results in a ranking of the animals in a group.
9. – a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase.
11. –the belief in or worship of more than one god.
12. – relating to or characteristic of a patriarch.
16. - a town or city not a county side.
17. - the belief or doctrine that there is only one God.