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chapter 3 test SS
Studying
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a division of labor? | when people specialize in one thing |
| Why is this area fertile? | floods left silt on the topsoil as a fertilizer |
| What does fertile crescent mean? | a large arc of rich, or fertile,farmland |
| Hanging of Garden of Babylon | a hanging garden for decoration |
| what does silt mean? | a mixture of rick soil and tiny rocks |
| What does canals means? | human-made waterways |
| The PLOW | a thing that broke soil and was pulled by oxen it helped farm |
| what is cuneiform | the first sumerians writhing |
| what is a scribe? | a writer keeps track of laws,and recordings |
| the wheel | a circular, thin cyclinder, for moving,and other more |
| What is a empire | an area ruled by are ruler a city state has a ruler just for the city,not for anything else |
| what does social hierarchy man? | the division of society by rank or class |
| what does priests mean? | people who performed religious ceremonies |
| what does scribe mean? | writer |
| What is another area which Sumerians are excelled in? | math |
| what was the math system based on the number? | 60 |
| what is the art for the Sumerians? | the are skilled in fields of art |
| what do they carve on? | clay |
| what is the hammurabi's code? | it was 282 laws |
| in sumerian society people social class or rank depended on their...... | Religion |
| do they have enough food. | they had more tan enough |
| where was mesopotamian? | near the tigris river and the euphrates. |
| how did the fertile crescent get its name | it was near the mesopotamia |
| what does surplus mean? | or more than they needed |
| What does silt have to do with flooding? | irrigation system |