Writing
The government officials who specialized in writing.
Scribes
This person held the most powerful position.
King
The main sacred building which consisted of levels of brick terraces in the form of a step pyramid.
Ziggurat
Mesopotamian religion was ___. Each city state added it's own god to the hundreds of others.
Polytheistic
If he kills the owner's slave
He will give the owner another slave.
At first, people made drawings of the objects they wanted to represent.
Pictograms
They were the property of other people and had no rights.
Slaves
The most important civil building had many rooms and was the residence of an very important person and his attendants.
Royal Palace
To know when the rivers would rise or when to sow seeds, Mesopotamians created this.
Lunar Calendar
If the owner's son dies.
His own son will receive the death penalty.
They drew wedge-shaped signs on wet clay tablets.
Cuneiform
They were the rich and powerful families. They lived in large houses and didn't need to work.
Privileged Minority
They used this to decorate brick walls.
Glazed ceramics or Tiles
They invented this system to measure land or record taxes.
Sexagesimal system
If a builder constructs a house which collapses and kills the owner.
He will receive the death penalty.
They joined pictograms to express ideas.
They performed religious duties to maintain social stability.
Priests
A roof in the form of an arch.
Vault
First great work of literature in history. Also, many of it's stories appeared later in those of other cultures.
Epic of Gilgamesh
If he takes out the eye or breaks the bone of a slave.
He will pay half the slave's value.
First people wrote from Top to Bottom and later on they changed it to this.
Horizontally
They worked for the privileged minority and lived in small houses. They were farmers, herders, merchants, etc.
Unprivileged Majority
A structure with a supporting point at each end.
Semicircular Arch
Type of Mesopotamian sculpture which were commemorative reliefs on vertical stone.
Steles
If a man takes out the eye or breaks the bone of a common person.
He will pay one mine of silver.