people
People who created the alphabet.
Who were the Phoenicians?
A set of shared beliefs about supernatural powers that created and ruled the world.
What is a religion?
More than needed of something for themselves.
what is a surplus?
A system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things. (On a slab of clay)
What is cuneiform?
A carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end.
what is a stele?
When people spend most of their time working on a single craft or job.
What is a specialization?
To supply water to their crops, Sumerians dug many miles of canals for the water to flow to the greens.
What is irrigation?
A region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-shaped curved from the Persian gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
A group of people who manage society's resources ant things people need to survive
What is a government?
Temples in a pyramid shape, made with bricks
What are ziggurats?