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mesopotamia
Term | Definition |
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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 |
Empir | 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 | |
Monarchy - a form of government that has one ruler | |
Alphabet - a set of letters that can be combined to form words |