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Mesopotamia vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fertile Crescent | - Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a large arch of fertile farmland |
| Irrigation | - the supply of water to fields using man made systems |
| 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 | -group of different lands and people governed by one ruler |
| Polytheism | - the worship/belief in 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 |
| Famine | -an extreme lack of crops or food causing widespread hunger |
| Monarch | - one ruler |
| Alphabet | - a set of letters that can be combined to form words |
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