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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 | - 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 |