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Social studies meso
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who was the Babylonian king | Hammurabi |
| A set of 282 set of laws | Hammurabi's code |
| The worship of many gods | polytheism |
| People who preformed religious ceremonies | priests |
| The division of society by rank or class | social hierarchy |
| Land with different territories and people under a single rule | Empire |
| The worlds first system of writing | Cuneiform |
| picture or symbol | pictograph |
| A writer | scribe |
| long poems that tell stories of heroes | epic |
| the science of building | architecture |
| A pyramid shaped temple tower | Ziggurat |
| what does mesopatamia mean | land beetween two rivers |
| A man made way to supply water to land | irragation |
| more than needed | surplus |
| a ruler of an empire or kingdom | monarch |
| a wheeled horse-drawn cart used in battle | chariot |
| a large arc of rich, or fertile, farm-land | fertile crescent |
| a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks, | silt |
| human-made water ways | canals |
| The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a paticular task or job | division of labor |
| countryside | rural |
| city | urban |
| city with countryside around it | city-state |