Vocab!
An especially fine and fertile soil.
SILT
What is the giant pyramid shaped temple in the middle of a city-state called.
ZIGGURAT
The Sumerian area ranked people by their power or wealth, what is this called?
SOCIAL CLASS
A group of different lands and people governed by one ruler.
EMPIRE
A person skilled at making things by hand.
ARTISAN
Water fields using human-made systems.
IRRIGATION
A formal series of acts performed in the same way to worship gods and or goddesses.
RITUALS
What is a self governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands and settlements?
CITY STATE
A partnership between places or people.
ALLIANCE
The earliest form of writing, invented by the Sumerians.
CUNEIFORM
A group of people that settles in a new land but keeps ties to its native country.
COLONY
What is it called when a religion has more than one god or goddesses?
Polytheism
An extreme lack of crops or food causing wide spread hunger.
FAMINE
TRIBUTE
A substance that is found in nature and can make things.
RAW MATERIALS
Both cultural and technological things left to us from past cultures.
LEGACY
What was the name of the god the Assyrians worshiped? (Same name as the Assyrian capital!)
ASHUR
The story of human life on Earth over the centuries.
HUMAN RECORD
An administrative district of a larger empire or country.
PROVINCE
The sympathy for the beliefs and practices of others.
TOLERANCE
The legacy of a group's or society's attributes passed down from generation to generation.
CULTURAL HERITAGE
What religion did Cyrus the Great and King Darius I believe in?
ZOROASTRIANISM
Which city state is Sargon from?
KISH
A governor of a province in the Persian Empire.
SATRAP
A way of in which figures are raised slightly above a flat base.
RELIEF