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S.S Vocab Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fertile Cresent | Became one of the first sites of a civilization |
| Mesopotamia | land between two rivers |
| Surplus | More than enough |
| Famine | Not enough food |
| Drought | no water very dry |
| Ziggurat | A large temple tower |
| Cuneiform | A system of symbols used in ancient writing |
| Scribes | Professional writers |
| Empire | Many territories controlled by one government |
| Marduk | – A god in the babylon religion |
| Caravans | people who traded goods from one place to another |
| Bazaars | Market for trade |
| Babylon | known for building and religion was important |
| Nineveh and the great library | –capital of the Assyrian Empire) contained a great library of over 30,000 tablets |
| King Nebuchadnezzar II | ruled new babylon empire |
| Hanging gardens of babylon | ancinet gardens |
| Zoroastrianism | An ancient Persian religion that believed in one god |
| Cyrus the Great | One of the greatest leaders in the persian empire |
| honeybees | Chaldean farmers raised the “flies that collect honey” also known as honeybees. New emperor farmers raised bees |
| city state | ? |