Module 3: Mesopotamia Vocabulary
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| polytheism | the worship of many gods
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| scribe | a writer
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| chariot | a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
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| civilization | an organized societt within a specific area
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| surplus | more than they needed
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| Fertile Crescent | a large arc of rich, or fertile farmlans
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| irrigation | a way of supplying water to an area of land
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| empire | land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
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| city-state | consisted of a city and all the countryside around it
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| rural | countryside
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| urban | city
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| cuneiform | the world's first system of writing
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| Mesopotamian inventions | writing, wheel, sewers, plow, cylinder seal
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| Akkadian Empire | World's 1st empire led by Sargon
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| Babylonian Empire | Written law code called Hammurabi's code
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| Assyrian Empire | Used iron weapons in battle
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| Persian Empire | World's largest empire
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| Judaism | monotheistic religion found in the Fertile Crescent
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| Mesopotamians settled in the Fertile Crescent | the 2 rivers mean more rich soil for farming
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