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SFDS6thMesopotamia
SFDS 6th Grade Mesopotamia Unit 1 Lessons 2, 3, 4,
Key Item | Definition |
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Agriculture | Farming |
Surplus | Something extra, beyond what is needed. |
Specialize | To do one particular job. |
Barter | To trade products instead of using cash to buy a product. |
Domesticate | To raise something to be useful to people. |
Farming Techniques | Examples are terraces, clearing the land using slash and burn, canals and reserviors, and studying the weather. |
Irrigation | The bringing of water to dry fields by canals or pipes. |
City-state | Cities that had their own governments. |
polytheism | The belief in many gods. |
Empire | A group of different lands under one ruler. |
Scribe | An official record keeper. |
Fertile Crescent | Another name for the Mesopotamia area. If in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Curves from the Persian Gulf up to the Mediterranean Sea. |
Silt | Fine bits of rock and soil carried or deposited by water. |
Ziggurat | A huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians that stood in the middle of the town or village. |
King Sargon | The first emperor in Mesopotamia. United many different city-states under his rule. And he ruled for 56 years. |
Cuneiform | The Sumerian form of writing that was in wedge shaped forms and pressed into clay tablets with reeds. |
Social Pyramid | At the top are nobles, government officials and priests. In the middle are the Merchants, skilled craftworkers, farmers, scribe, and traders. At the very bottom are the slaves. |
Code | A written collection of laws. |
Covenant | A special agreement. |
Monotheism | The belief in only one God. |
Astronomy | The study of the stars and planets. |
King Hammurabi | The first king of the Babylonians. He ruled a bigger empire than King Sargon. Is known for the Code of Hammurabi. The first written collection of laws pertaining at every aspect of life. |
Abraham | Made a special agreement with God. And it is from him that the Israelites trace their heritage back to. His descendants are going to out number the stars. |
Moses | Leads the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan. |
10 Commandments | The 10 laws that God gave to Moses for the Israelites to follow. |
Diaspora | When the Jewish people spread to other areas than the Mesopotamia to escape the control of other empires. It's a word that means scattered. |
Chaldeans | Responsible for creating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Created an accurate calendar with the study of the stars. |