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Mesopotamia
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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 - | 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 | and 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 |