Vocabulary
This is a city that has its own government and rules its territory.
What is city-state?
This group is at the bottom of the social pyramid, often used for labor.
Who are slaves?
Known for the creation of cuneiform.
What is Sumer?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This is an innovation in order to get water to crops.
What is irrigation?
This is a skilled person who records information through writing.
What is a scribe?
This person(s) is typically the leader of an empire.
Who is the King/Queen?
This empire had the first king in history.
Who are the Akkadians?
This means "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
This means to have more than what is needed to survive.
What is surplus?
Having more of something than you actually need to survive.
What is irrigation?
This social class consists of artisans and merchants.
Who are the middle class?
This empire was known for the first written laws and for building roads for trade.
Who are the Babylonians?
This is the area of land that surrounds a river.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is the belief in more than one God.
What is polytheism?
A smaller section of territory that is much smaller than an empire.
What is a province?
This social class includes priests, warriors, and nobility.
This is the upper class.
This empire had the first library and created a system of communication with horses.
Who are the Assyrians?
This sea (gulf) is located south of Mesopotamia.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The Sumerians developed this type of writing.
What is cuneiform?
A large territory governed by one ruler.
What is a empire?
This class was made up the "everyday people"
Who are the middle class?
This empire was known for mathematics, astronomy, and identified 5 planets.
Who are the Chaldeans?
This modern-day country is where Mesopotamia was located.
What is Iraq?
This is located in the center of city-states.
What is a ziggurat?