Farming and cities
What is another word for more food than needed
Surplus
A ____ is consisted of a city and all the countryside arroundd it.
City-state
Who performed religious ceremonies.
Priests
What is the world's first writing system?
Cuneiform
The ruler of a kingdom or empire.
Monarch
what's another word for human-made waterways
Canals
Who lived north of sumer along the Tigris river.
Akkadians
______ is the worship of many gods.
Polytheism
What are epics?
Long-term pomes that tell stories of heroes.
How long did Hammurabi rule
42 years
Despite the growth of cities, society in Mesopotamia was still based on...
Agriculture
Who established the world's first empire.
Sargon
______ played a huge aspect in both public and private life.
Religion
what is another word for pictures/symbols
pictographs
282 laws that dealt with almost every part of everyday life
Hammurabi's Code
What is the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job is called...
Division of labor
Who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Gilgamesh
Who is the first known female writer in history?
Enheduanna
They used sharp tools called _____ to make wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets.
styluses.
After Hammurabi's death, ______ power declined.
Babylonian
To prevent their fields from flooding, farmers bilt___
Banks
The Akkadian empire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the ___
Medertarainian sea
The kings of summer claimed that they were chosen by _______ to rule
The God's
The epic of ______ is the story of a legendary Sumerian king
Gilgamesh
Several waves of invaders battled to take control over ___________
Mesopotamia