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Mesopotamia
Term | Definition |
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Fertile Crescent | region of the Middle East that stretches in a large,crescent-shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean |
Mesopotamia | wide, flat plain in present-day Iraq. This plain lies between the two great rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. (land between the rivers) |
irrigate | to supply with water; usually canals, ditches, pipes, or streams |
city-state | independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory |
barter | trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money |
polytheism | the belief in more than one god |
ziggurat | temples that were pyramid-shaped brick towers in larger Sumerian cities |
cuneiform | system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things |
empire | Territories governed by a single ruler or nation. |
Hammurabi's Code | a set of laws that governed the life in the Babylonian empire; oldest deciphered writings- consists of 282 laws |
Babylon (bab uh lahn) | was a small, unimportant city on the Euphrates River located near present-day Baghdad, Iraq. Under the king of Hammurabi, Babylon became the center of a new Mesopotamian empire |
Hammurabi (hah muh rah bee) | Babylonian king (1792-1750) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria. |
Assyria (uh seer ee uh) | north of Babylon, along the Tigris River. |
nomads | People who moved from place to place following their food source |
B.C. | Dating from before the year Jesus Christ was born |
A.D. | Dating form the year Jesus Christ was born |
archaeologist | Studies material things left from the past. |
Edubbas | Sumerian schools for scribes |
scribe | Someone who is trained to write |
movement | The shifting of ideas from one area or region to another. This can be material things or ideas and customs. |
regions | Areas with common characteristics such as the same religion or weather |
place | What it is like (example: language, weather, customs) |
human environmental interaction | How human interact with their surroundings. Such as clearing land to build a house, wearing a jacket. |
location | Where it is. We use Relative and Absolute directions |
Equator | Main line of latitude |
Prime Meridian | Main line of longitude |
hemispheres | Main line of longitude |