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Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
Term | Definition |
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Fertile Crescent | large arc of rich or fertile farmland |
Mesopotamia | means "between the rivers" in Greek |
silt | mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks |
irrigation | a way of supplying water to an area of land |
canals | human-made waterways |
surplus | more than needed |
division of labor | arrangement in which each workers specializes in a particular task or job |
rural | countryside |
urban | city |
city-state | consisted of a city and all the countryside around it |
empire | land with different territories and peoples under a single rule |
role | a part or function |
impact | effect, result |
polytheism | worship of many gods |
Priests | people who performed religious ceremonies |
social hierarchy | division of society by rank or class |
cuneiform | world's first system of writing |
pictographs | picture symbols |
scribe | writer |
epics | long poems that told stories of heroes |
architecture | science of building |
ziggurat | a pyramid-shaped temple tower |
monarch | a ruler of a kingdom or empire |
Hammurabi's Code | set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life |
chariot | a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle |
alphabet | set of letters that can be combined to form words |
Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city |
Gilgamesh | King of Uruk who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature |
Sargon | King of Akkad; built the world's first empire after defeating Sumer and northern Mesopotamia |
barter | trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money |
stele | carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end |
colony | an area ruled by a distant country |
cultural diffusion | spreading of cultural traits from one region to another |