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Mesopotamia
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Canal- | Human-made waterways that carry 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 - | a form of government that has one ruler |
| Alphabet - | a set of letters that can be combined to form words |