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Mesopotamia
Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Fertile Crescent | Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a large arch of fertile farmland |
Irrigation | A way of supplying water to an area of land |
Canal | Human-made waterways that carry water to land |
Surplus | More than is needed (usually used to describe a supply of food) |
City-State | Consists of a city and all the countryside around it |
Empire | Land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler |
Polytheism | The worship of many Gods |
Priest | People who perform religious ceremonies |
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 | A set of letters that can be combined to form words |