VOCAB
VOCAB, part 2
Main Ideas
Civilizations
Civilizations, part 2
100
a writer
scribe
100
step pyramid temple
ziggurat
100
What word means "land between two rivers"
Mesopotamia
100
Invented the wheel
Sumerians
100
Created a calendar system
Chaldeans
200
a way of supplying water to an area of land
irrigation
200
division of society by rank or class
social hierarchy
200
Give one reason farming was difficult during this time
too little rain (crops dried up), flooding
200
Created 1st written set of Laws
Babylonians
200
Built roads connecting their empire
Assyrians
300
worship of many gods
polytheism
300
first written set of laws developed by the Babylonian king
Hammurabi's Code
300
Why did new jobs develop during this time?
not everyone had to be farmers, a surplus of food
300
created the 1st alphabet
Phoenicians
300
Improved a tax collections system to pay for projects
Babylonians
400
area of rich farmland where the first farming settlements were; in southwest Asia
Fertile Crescent
400
world's first system of writing developed by the Sumerians
cuneiform
400
What was Hammurabi's Code based on ( what were his punishments based on)?
eye for an eye
400
Had the first permanent army
Akkadians
400
Why was Mesopotamia called the "cradle of civilization"?
Many new ideas/inventions were "born" here
500
part of the Fertile Crescent where the first farming settlements were
Mesopotamia
500
type of culture or society of a specific place or time in history
civilization
500
Name Sumerian social hierarchy from top to bottom
Kings, Priests, Traders/craftspeople/merchants, farmers/laborers, & slaves
500
Used the chariot to defeat their enemies
Hittites
500
Name one fact about Sumerian men & women
Men- educated, made laws, had political power Women- could be priestesses, took care of home & children
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