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Foy WH Ch. 3 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Fertile Crescent | an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began |
silt | a mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming |
irrigation | a way of supplying water to an area of land |
canals | a human-made waterway |
surplus | more of something than is needed |
division of labor | an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task |
rural | a countryside area |
urban | a city area |
city-state | a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside |
empire | land with different territories and peoples under a single rule |
polytheism | the worship of many gods |
social hierarchy | the division of society by rank or class |
cuneiform | the world's first system of writing; developed in Sumer |
pictograph | a picture symbol |
scribe | a writer |
epics | long poems that tell the stories of heroes |
ziggurat | a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer |
monarch | a ruler of a kingdom or empire |
Hammurabi's Code | a set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws |
alphabet | a set of letters that can be combined to form words |