Vocabulary
A person who writes.
What is a Scribe?
The geographic area in between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
A person who makes money by selling goods.
What is a Merchant?
A system of levels in society as in economic or social.
What is Social Structure?
The first written law in Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's code?
A large area of land where groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.
What is a Empire?
The oldest known civilization southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
A small, independent country with its own laws and government.
What is a City-state?
When a society has enough food so it can survive plus some extra to trade.
What is a Stable Food Supply?
A Sumerian king who wanted to be famous.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Training a wild animal to be useful to humans.
What is domestication?
The place where the tigris and Euphrates river empties out.
What is the Persian gulf?
A type of writing that uses wedge-shaped characters.
What is Cuneiform?
A set of beliefs usually in a god or gods together with forms of worship like holidays, prayers and rituals.
What is religion?
A place of worship in the Sumerian city of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
The business of farming, growing crops and raising animals.
What is Agriculture?
The first region was settled and farmed.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A symbol that stands for an object.
What is a Pictograph?
Inventing things at a sustainable rate.
What is Technology?
These people were in the lowest class of social structure.
What are slaves?
The two largest rivers in Southwest Asia.
What are the Tigris River and Euphrates River?
The place where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers start .
What are the Tarsus Mountains?
Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.
What is a Tribute?
A group of people who keep law and order and make laws.
What is Government?
A way of watering multiple plants at once.
What is irrigation?