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Mesopotamia

Chapter 13

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Sumer The first civilization in Southern Mesopotamia formed in 3000 BC.
city-state A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
empire land with diefferent territories and peoples under a single rule.
polytheism belief in many gods
priests people who performed religious ceremonies
social heirarchy the division of society by rank or class
cuneiform a system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represetned by words or symbols. it helped with keeping records. Scribes wrote on clay tablets.
pictograph A picture that represents an object.
scribes people trained to write using the earliest forms of writing before literacy was widespread.
epics long stories that tell the stories of heroes
architecture the art of building.
ziggurat a pyramid shapted temple tower where peope went to worship.
Sargon established the world's first empire. (king)
bronze tools helped Sumerians construct last cities
irrigation a way of supplying water to an area of land
Mesopotamia "land between the rivers"
fertile able to produce good crops
Fertile Crescent a geographical area of land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates.
metallurgy The science of working with metals.
Code of Hammurabi a collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written laws in the ancient world.
silt fine sand carried by running water and deposited on land
artisan a person who used a specialized skill to produce goods or services
monarchy a government ruled by a king or a queen
Assyrian Empire an empire that dominated Northern Mesopotamia with their main capital at Nineveh on the Tigris Ricer. They were heavily influenced by the Babylonian culture to the south.
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