Vocab
a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
pyramid shaped structure used as a temple
What is a ziggurat?
this group rebelled against the Assyrians
Who are the Chaldeans?
a group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels
What is caravan?
Who is Hammurabi?
an amount that is left over after a need has been met
What is surplus?
season in which water was scarce in early Mesopotamia
What is summer?
location of one of the world's first libraries
What is Nineveh?
a person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper
What is a scribe?
Who is Gilgamesh?
fine particles of fertile soil
What is silt?
two reasons Sumerian city-states went to war with each other
What are resources and political borders?
Who is Sargon?
a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero
people who study heavenly bodies
a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
What is irrigation?
Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
this army was brutal, well-trained and disciplined and included infantry, cavalry, and charioteers
What is the Assyrian Army?
a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler
What is an empire?
some of the examples of the brutal actions of the Assyrian army
What are burning crops, robbing people, destroying towns, taking tributes, and driving people from their homes?
belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
types of people in the Sumerian middle class
Who are merchants, farmers, artisans, and fishers?
the Assyrian weapons were made of this material
What is iron?
a system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay
What is cuneiform?
important Sumerian inventions
What are wheel, sailboat, carts, bronze, and place value system for numbers?