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mesopotamia
Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Canal | human-made waterways that carry water to land |
land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler | |
Polytheism | the worship of many Gods |
Priest | |
Social Hierarchy | the division of a society by rank or class |
Cuneiform | the world’s first writing system. Created by the Sumerians. |
pictograph | picture symbols that represent a word or object |
scribe | a writer |
Ziggurat | a temple for worshipping Gods |
Hammurabi's Code | the first written laws! 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life |
Monarch | one ruler |
Alphabet |