Mesopotamia Word Scramble
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An area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began | Fertile Crescent |
Finely ground fertile soil that is good for growing crops | Silt |
A way of supplying water to an area of land | Irrigation |
A human-made waterway | Canals |
A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside | City-State |
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule | Empire |
The worship of many gods | Polytheism |
The world’s first system of writing; developed in Sumer | Cuneiform |
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes | Epics |
The science of building | Architecture |
A pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer | Ziggurat |
The division of society by rank or class | Social Hierarchy |
A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle | Chariot |
a type of market found especially in Middle Eastern countries that has rows of small shops which sell many different kinds of things | bazaar |
trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money | barter |
a set of laws that governed the life in the Babylonian empire; oldest deciphered writings- consists of 282 laws | Hammurabi's Code |
Laws which were etched onto stone tablets in cuneiform | Precept |
King of Neo-Babylon who was responsible for the construction of the hanging gardens, city walls, gates and temples | Nebuchadnezzar |
One of the wonders of the ancient world; constructed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Neo-Babylon because his wife missed her homeland | Hanging Gardens |
All members of a society must obey the law | Rule of Law |
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