Lesson 1.0
fine particles of fertile soil
What is silt?
a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
what is a ziggurat?
a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler
what is an empire?
a set of official laws
what is a code?
to be made up of
what is consist?
a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
what is irrigation?
a system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay
what is cuneiform?
a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender
what is tribute?
relating to soldiers, arms, or war
what is a military?
people who hunt animals and gather plants for food
what are hunter-gatherers?
an amount that is left over after a need has been met
what is surplus?
a person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper
what is a scribe?
a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
what is a province?
a geographic area
what is a region?
People who move around to survive
what are nomads?
a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
what is a city-state?
a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero
what is an epic?
a group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels
what is a caravan?
having many parts, details, or ideas
what is complex?
relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age
what is Paleolithic?
a belief in more than one god
what is polytheism?
moving or lying in the same direction and the same distance apart
what is parallel?
a person who studies planets and stars
what is an astronomer?
the name for the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
what is Mesopotamia?
the name of this chapter
what is Mesopotamia?