Lesson 1
The large arc of rich, fertile farmland that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Having more than needed.
What is a surplus?
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
What is social hierarchy?
The science of building
What is architecture?
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks, to the land.
What is silt?
What is a division of labor?
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
What is an empire?
The world's first system of writing
What is cuneiform?
A pyramid-shaped temple tower that rose above each city
What is a ziggurat?
An organized society within a specific area.
What is a civilization?
countryside areas
What is rural?
People who performed religious ceremonies.
What are priests?
Picture symbols
What are pictographs?
A ruler of a kingdom or empire
What is a monarch?
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
city areas
What is urban?
One of Uruk's kings who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
A writer who was hired to to document business transactions or keep track of the items people bought and sold.
What is a scribe?
Babylon's King, wrote a set of 282 laws
Who is Hammurabi?
What are canals?
Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
Long poems that tell the story of heroes
What are epics?
wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
What is a chariot?