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Mesopatamia Vocab
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silt | fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor. |
Fertile Crescent | a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates |
Polytheism | The concept that divinity is multiple and cannot be separated from nature. In reality this means that any and every Godess that has ever been worshipped does, in fact, exist. |
Myth | a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. |
irrigation | supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc |
caravan | A group of merchants traveling together for safety. |
bazaar | a market in a Middle Eastern country. |
Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, the northeastern section of Syria and to a much lesser extent southeastern Turkey, smaller parts of southwestern Iran and Kuwait. ... |
city-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. |
surplus | an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand. |
empire | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. |
tribute | an act, statement, or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration. surreneder |
province | a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires. The states of the USA are the province and the USA is the empire. |
epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. |
astronomer | an expert in or student of astronomy. |
prophet | a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God. |
monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. |
scribe | a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented. |
cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. |
enkidu | legendary friend of Gilgamesh |
untapishtim | favorite of the gods and grandfather of Gilgamesh; survived the great flood and became immortal |
ziggurat | in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9). |
urshanabi | the boat man |
ishtar | Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte - god that sent down Enkidu |
battering ram | a heavy object swung or rammed against a door to break it down |