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Mesopotamia Vocab
Words | Defintions |
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1. Fertile Crescent | Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a large arch of fertile farmland |
2. Irrigation | the supply of water to fields using man made systems |
3. Canal | human-made waterways that carry water to land |
4. Surplus | more than is needed (usually used to describe a supply of food) |
5. City-State | consists of a city and all the countryside around it |
6. Empire | group of different land and people governed by one ruler |
7. Polytheism | the worship/belief in many Gods |
8. Priest | people who perform religious ceremonies |
9. Social Hierarchy | the division of a society by rank or class |
10. Cuneiform | the world’s first writing system. Created by the Sumerians. |
11. Pictograph | Picture symbols that represent a word or object |
12. Scribe | a writer |
13. Ziggurat | a temple for worshipping Gods |
14. Hammurabi's Code | the first written laws! 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life |
15. Famine | an extreme lack of crops or food causing widespread hunger |
16. Monarch | one ruler |
17. Alphabet | a set of letters that can be combined to form words |