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mespotamia vocab
mesopotamia vocabulary
| Word | Defenitinon |
|---|---|
| Canal | a man made water way |
| City-state | a political unit consisting of and its surrounding country side |
| cuneiform | one of the earliest known forms of written expressions written in sumer |
| Empire | a land with different territories and people under a single rule |
| Fertile Crescent | an area of rich farmland in southwest Asia where the first civilization began |
| Hammurabi's code | a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life |
| Irriquation | a way of supplying water to an area of land |
| monarch | a ruler a kingdom or empire |
| monotheism | the belief in only one god |
| ziggurat | a pyramid shaped temple tower in sumer |
| pictographs | a picture symbol |
| urban | a city area |
| polytheism | the worship or belief in many gods |
| surplus | more of something that is needed |
| priests | a person who performs religous cerimonies |
| silt | a mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming |
| prophet | someone who is said to receive messages from god to teach others |
| scribe | a writer |
| rural | a country side area |
| barter | trading system in witch people exchange goods without using money |
| cavalry | any military unit that is quick and noble |
| covenant | a legal agreement of binding contract |
| ensi | a term for a king at a city state in acient sumeria |
| domenstication | a process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use |
| paleolithic | "Old stone age" marked by the use of old stones |
| neolithic | " New stone age " the agriculture revolution began |
| caravan | a group of people especially traders or pilgrims traveling together across a desert |