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Reid
Reid- First Civilization, Unit 1, Ch. 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| empire | a group of many different lands under one ruler |
| mud brick | Sumerian building material |
| scribe | record keeepers who often went on to become government officials |
| nomad | people who regularly move from place to place |
| ziggurat | grand temple with a shrine at the top, like a giant square wedding cake |
| irrigation | building dams, channels, walls and ditches to bring water to crops |
| Mesopotamia | land between 2 rivers, the cradle of civilizations |
| artisans | skilled workers who made metal products of cloth or pottery |
| historian | people who study and write about the human past |
| cuneiform | Sumerian writing system |
| bronze | a mixture of copper and tin |
| archaelogists | study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past |
| Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king who built the hanging gardens |
| Hammurabi | created a written law code |
| Assyrians | warlike group |
| Sargon | King of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia |