People and Jobs
This skilled worker makes items like pottery or tools by hand.
Who is an artisan
This is the general term for supplying water to land or crops.
What is irrigation?
A written set of rules that everyone in a society must follow.
What are laws?
This religious leader was responsible for leading and caring for the temple.
Who is a priest?
This person was at the top of the religious hierarchy in a city.
Who is a priest?
This person was a religious leader who cared for the temple.
What is a priest?
This human-made waterway was built to move water to crops.
What is a canal?
This is a specific territory or land ruled by a king or queen.
What is a kingdom.
This is a set of rules that everyone in society must follow or they will receive punishment.
What are laws?
This person was trained to write in cuneiform and keep records.
Who is a scribe?
This person travels to different places to trade or sell goods.
Who is a merchant?
This word describes soil that is rich and good for growing crops.
What is fertile?
This is a large area where one ruler controls many different kingdoms.
What is an empire?
This term describes the ranking of people in a society by power.
What is a hierarchy?
This word describes the productive soil found in the River Valley.
What is fertile?
This professional writer was responsible for keeping records.
Who is a scribe?
A ditch or channel dug to guide water from a river to a field.
What is a canal?
This is a city and its surrounding land that acts as its own country.
What is a city-state?
This was the name for a Mesopotamian temple.
What is a ziggurat?
This massive mud-brick tower served as a temple for a city's god.
What is a ziggurat?
This system organizes people into different social levels (like slave, king, soldier, etc.)
What is a hierarchy?
Many early civilizations used this system to supply dry land with water.
What is irrigation.
This type of government is ruled by a single king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
The ziggurat was built with levels shaped like this to reach the gods.
What is a staircase?
The Roman and Ottomans controlled many different countries and lands from one place.
What is an empire?