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SWMS Mesopotamia
Vocabulary from this unit as well as Pre-History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Technology | Anything created that helps make work easier! |
| Nomad | People who regularly move from place to place; hunters and gatherers. |
| Domesticate | Taming animals and plants for human use. |
| Neolithic | New Stone Age; 8000 BC – 4000 BC |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age; 100,000 BC – 8000 BC |
| Agriculture Revolution | During the Neolithic when people settle down and begin mass farming all over the world around the same time. |
| Specialization | Specific skills needed to perform a certain task. |
| Civilization | A complex society with organized religion, art, class divisions, cities, and a writing system. |
| River Vally Civilization | A civilization that begins near rivers where good farming conditions make it easy to feed large numbers of people. |
| Tigris and Euphrates River | River Valleys where the first civilizations began. |
| Irrigation | Re-locating water from one source to another area through dams, canals, ditches, waterways, etc. |
| City-State | An area with its own form of government that is not part of a larger unit (or country). |
| Ziggurat | Temple in the middle of a city; means “mountain of gods” or “hill of heaven”. |
| Mesopotamia | “Land between the rivers”, area where most civilizations started at between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. |
| Fertile Crescent | A curved strip of land with very fertile soil; contains Mesopotamia. |
| Artisans | Skilled workers who specialize in making a certain type of product. |
| Cuneiform | First form of writing developed in Sumer. |
| Scribe | People (mostly boys) that learned to read and write. |
| Trade and Farming | Two major ways that Sumerians gained wealth. |
| Culture | The way of life for a group of people; 8 Aspects of Culture are art, religion, writing, clothing, government, music, daily life, and food. |
| Customs | The social habits of a group. |
| Empire | Group of many different lands under one ruler. |
| Sargon I | Created the world's first empire, ruled all of Mesopotamia. |
| Babylon | A city near the Euphrates River that became the major center of trade. |
| Code of Hammurabi | A set of the best laws from all of the city-states created by the Babylonian king Hammurabi. |
| Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king who controlled all of Mesopotamia from 605-562 BC; built the Hanging Gardens. |
| Hanging Gardens of Babylon | Built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife who missed her homeland. |
| Province | Land in an empire that is broke into political districts. |
| Caravan | A group of traveling merchants. |
| Astronomer | People who study stars, planets, sun, and moon. |
| Wheel | Created around 3500 BC to make transportation easier. |
| Plow | A wooden invention used to cultivate (farm) the ground for planting crops. |
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