Names
A region of the Middle East that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is The Fertile Crescent
A belief in more than one god.
Technology that the Sumerians used with canals that transported water.
What is irrigation.
A wide flt plain that lies between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia
A pyramid-shaped brick tower.
What is a ziggurat?
A trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
What is barter?
The people who first established a community in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians.
A system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for words, ideas, or sounds.
What is cuneiform?
Sumerians developed a social order with three classes, each having a certain role.
What is distinct?
Myths or stories about the gods and heroes.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
An independent state that includes a city.
What is a city-state?
To grow and do well.
What is prosper?
He used a form of written communication and created many new laws.
What is King Hammurabi?
People who held power at the top of the social classes.
What are priests and kings?
Villages grew as more people settled and it was called:
What is a city-state?