SFDS 6th Grade Mesopotamia Unit 1 Lessons 2, 3, 4,
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| Agriculture | Farming
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| Surplus | Something extra, beyond what is needed.
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| Specialize | To do one particular job.
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| Barter | To trade products instead of using cash to buy a product.
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| Domesticate | To raise something to be useful to people.
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| Farming Techniques | Examples are terraces, clearing the land using slash and burn, canals and reserviors, and studying the weather.
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| Irrigation | The bringing of water to dry fields by canals or pipes.
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| City-state | Cities that had their own governments.
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| polytheism | The belief in many gods.
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| Empire | A group of different lands under one ruler.
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| Scribe | An official record keeper.
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| Fertile Crescent | Another name for the Mesopotamia area. If in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Curves from the Persian Gulf up to the Mediterranean Sea.
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| Silt | Fine bits of rock and soil carried or deposited by water.
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| Ziggurat | A huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians that stood in the middle of the town or village.
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| King Sargon | The first emperor in Mesopotamia. United many different city-states under his rule. And he ruled for 56 years.
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| Cuneiform | The Sumerian form of writing that was in wedge shaped forms and pressed into clay tablets with reeds.
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| Social Pyramid | At the top are nobles, government officials and priests. In the middle are the Merchants, skilled craftworkers, farmers, scribe, and traders. At the very bottom are the slaves.
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| Code | A written collection of laws.
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| Covenant | A special agreement.
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| Monotheism | The belief in only one God.
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| Astronomy | The study of the stars and planets.
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| King Hammurabi | The first king of the Babylonians. He ruled a bigger empire than King Sargon. Is known for the Code of Hammurabi. The first written collection of laws pertaining at every aspect of life.
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| Abraham | Made a special agreement with God. And it is from him that the Israelites trace their heritage back to. His descendants are going to out number the stars.
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| Moses | Leads the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan.
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| 10 Commandments | The 10 laws that God gave to Moses for the Israelites to follow.
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| Diaspora | When the Jewish people spread to other areas than the Mesopotamia to escape the control of other empires. It's a word that means scattered.
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| Chaldeans | Responsible for creating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Created an accurate calendar with the study of the stars.
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