Vocabulary 1
A person who studies history professionally.
What is a historian?
The study of the stars, planets and moon.
What is astronomy?
"The land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
The king who wrote the first law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
Most people did this job in Mesopotamia.
What is farming?
The good farming land that exists around the Tigris, Euphrates and Nile Rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What is a ziggurat?
A long poem that tells the story of a hero
What is an epic?
The person at the top of the social ladder in Mesopotamia.
The city Mrs. Uselman is from.
What is Madison?
A government that is run by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
Created when one powerful ruler or country takes over other communities around them.
Ancient Sumerian writing, created using wedge shapes made in clay.
What is cuneiform?
Shared verbally before writing.
What are stories?
What is a dog?
The Akkadian king who created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
To fight back against something or someone.
What is rebel?
A person who is able to read and write, often served the government in ancient times
What is a scribe?
What people were born into in Mesopotamia.
What is their social class?
Who are Hannah and Brody?
An area of an empire that has been broken up to rule more effectively.
What is a province?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
The amount of people or animals that live somewhere
What is a population?
The two rivers that created fertile farmland in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
An independent city that rules itself with no outside power.
What is a city-state?