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Mesopatamia
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Fertile Crescent - | Located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, a large arch of fertile lands |