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MESOPOTAMIA
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is the difference between urban and rural? | rural: living in a country side urban: living in a more populated area of land |
| What were city states? | a city enforced in walls that depends on their millitary |
| How did states get along with each other? | they didn't. They fought for resources and supplies (surplus) |
| How was Sargon able to build the first empire? | he dominated every city-state in Mesopotamia he was the first person to have a permanent army |
| What is an empire? | a land with different territory's under 1 ruler |
| ziggurat | a pyramid shaped temple in sumer |
| architecture | the science of building |
| epics | long poems that tell about heros |
| scribe | a writer |
| pictograph | a picture symbol |
| cuneiform | the worlds first system of writing |