Mesopotamia Vocabulary
The 50 vocabulary words for Mesopotamia.
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- agriculture
- The raising of domesticated plants and animals (a.k.a. FARMING!!!)
- Tigris River
- a river in southwestern Asia that connects with the Euphrates to form the Persian Gulf
- Canaan
- a promised land
- cuneiform
- an ancient form of writing for Mesopotamia
- city-state
- a city and its surrounding farmlands, with its own leaders and government
- monarchy
- the system of government in which a king or queen rules people that are below them
- covenant
- an agreement between dudes
- exile
- to be banished from ones homeland :(
- bazaar
- a marketplace
- Israel
- an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea
- monotheism
- a belief in one God
- polytheism
- a belief in many gods
- barter system
- a system where you trade rather than buy
- caravan
- a group of traders or travelers
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- a king who captured and destroyed Jerusalem
- domesticate
- to tame plants and animals for our desires
- prophet
- someone who others believe speaks or writes a divine message
- Jerusalem
- the capital of Israel
- Judah
- the kingdom of the Hebrews
- Fertile Crescent
- A region arching across the northern part of the Syrian Desert
- fertile
- capable of producing crops
- Babylonia
- an ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley
- Phoenicians
- an inhabitant of ancient Phoenicia
- Moses
- a hebrew who led the Israelites out of Egypt
- civilization
- a centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing, and learning
- Abraham
- father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation
- canal
- a waterway for irrigation and navigation
- surplus
- an extra amount of something cool (or not cool)
- Agricultural Revolution
- a significant change in agriculture that occurs when there are discoveries, inventions, or new technologies that change production
- nomad
- a human with no settled home
- Sargon
- Mesopotamian ruler, also dude that found Akkadian kingdom
- diaspora
- the scattering of the Jews
- famine
- anti-surplus of food
- social class
- a group that has a certain amount of popularity
- labor
- work done for economic costs
- irrigation
- to water dry land
- ziggurat
- a BIG mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians
- Hammurabi
- Babylonian king
- dikes
- a hole in the earth or in some rocks to prevent flooding
- empire
- a conquered land of many people and places governed by one ruler
- Euphrates River
- a river in southwestern Asia that connects with the Tigris River to form the Persian Gulf
- Mesopotamia
- the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, also called 'the land between rivers'
- Deborah
- a prophetess and judge of Israel
- Assyria
- An ancient empire and civilization located in the upper valley of the Tigris River
- alphabet
- the letters in a language in order
- Phoenicia
- an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean Sea
- archaeology
- the study of ancient history and the way of life there (cavemen)
- New Babylonian Empire
- the most powerful state in the ancient world after the fall of the Assyrian empire.Its capital was Babylon.
- scribe
- a dude who writes
- Sumer
- an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states