Vocab Terms
Picture symbols
What is pictographs
The science of a building
What is Architecture
Set up of letter used to words
What is the Alphabet
A ruler of a kingdom or empire
What is a monarch
The first form of writing
What is cuneiform
A wheeled horse-drawn cart used in battle
What is a Chariot
Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it
What is City-State
The division of society by rank or class
What is Social Hierarchy
What is Rural
Chaldean's set up a new empire of their own
What is Nebuchadnezzar
A city
What is Urban
People who performed religious ceremonies
What are Priests
What name was Uruk's king that became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
What is Gilgamesh
A pyramid-shaped temple tower
What is Ziggurat
Writing form
What is Scribe
The worship of many gods
What is Polytheism
Peace was broken in 2300 BC when _____ sought to extend the Akkadian territory
What is Sargon
Set of 282 law that dealt with almost every part of daily life
What is Hammurabi's Code
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes
What is an Epic
Land with different territories and people under a single rule
What is an Empire