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Mesopotamia
Key Terms for Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a belief in many gods | polytheism |
| A way of supplying water to an area of land | irrigation |
| A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks | silt |
| the world’s first writing system | cuneiform |
| A writer | scribe |
| consisted of a city and all the countryside around it | city-state |
| A pyramid-shaped temple tower | ziggurat |
| the division of society by rank or class | social hierarchy |
| land with different territories and peoples under a single rule | empire |
| First king to write down laws | Hammurabi |
| rivers of Mesopotamia | Tigris and Euphrates |
| man-made ditches used to carry water | canals |
| agriculture | farming |
| farm equipment invented by the Sumerians | plow |
| more than what you need | surplus |