Define What?
It means "The land between the rivers"
Mesopotamia
A mixture of copper and tin
What is bronze?
The earliest-known civilization arose in what is now southern Iraq, on a flat plain bounded between these rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia, in which civilization arose around 3300 B.C.
What is Sumer?
A group of territories and peoples brought together under one supreme ruler.
What is an empire?
A region that has some rain, but remains fairly dry.
What is semiarid?
“picture writing.”
What are pictographs?
An area of rich soil in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf.
What is the Fertile Cresent
A community that included a city and its nearby farmlands
What is a city-state?
A set of written rules for people to obey.
What are codes of law?
fair treatment of people, to the people
What is justice?
An ancient writing system developed by the Sumerians, made up of wedge-shaped markings.
What is cuneiform?
fine, fertile soil deposited by a river.
What is silt?
A belief in many gods and goddesses
What is Polytheism?
The highest-ranked leader of a group of people.
What is a king?
An ancient Sumerian or Babylonian temple that rose in a series of steplike levels.
What is a ziggurat?
Original reason for creating a writing system.
What is to record business transactions?
farmers built canals to carry water from the rivers to their fields
What is irrigation?
A person trained in a particular skill or craft who made metal products, cloth, or pottery.
What is an artisan?
the ruler of the Babylonian Empire from 1792 to 1750 B.C., who expanded the empire.
Who is King Hammurabi
Latin for "in the year of our Lord"
What is Anno Domini (A.D.)
a group of people with similar customs, backgrounds, training, and income
What is a social class?
more than they needed for themselves
What ia a surplus?
They were taken as prisoners during war or parents died or were very poor or a person might borrow more money than he or she could repay and worked off the debt.
What is a slave?
This means that they forced people to move from their homelands to other lands, often far away.
What is exile?