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mespootamia
Term | Definition |
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fertile crescent | Located between tigris and euphrates and euphrates rivers, a arch of fertile crescent |
irrigation | the supply of water to fields using man made systems |
canal | human-made waterways that carry water to land |
slurplus | 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;) |
polythesim | the worship/belief in many Gods |
priest | people who perform religious ceremonies |
Social Hirearchy | 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 | a form of government that has one ruler |
Alphabet | a set of letters that can be combined to form words |