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mesopotamia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |