A
more than what is needed
Surplus
man-made waterway used for bringing water to crops
Canal
mixture of soil and rocks deposited by flooding river that makes fertile land for farming
Silt
professional writer
Scribe
set of letters that are used to form words
Alphabet
belief in many gods
Polytheism
_______ is another name for the Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
The Fertile Crescent is located between what two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
Hammurabi's Code was the first set of written laws (True or False)
True
Which people were able to conquer others because they developed iron weapons and chariots?
Assyrians
Why did the Phoenicians develop an economy based on trade and shipping?
They did not have good farmland
the division of society by rank or class
Social Hierarchy
rural
Countryside
A way of supplying water to an area of land
Irrigation
A city and all the countryside around it
City-state
A ruler of a kingdom or empire
Monarch
Hammurabi's Code was based on the idea of what?
"An eye for an eye"
Who developed the first system of writing
The Sumerians
urban
City
A pyramid shaped temple tower
Ziggurat
What did the Sumerians use to write cuneiform?
Clay tablets and a wedge shaped stick
Land with different territories and people under a single rule
Empire
An organized society within a specific area
Civilization
Who developed the first alphabet?
The Phoenicians
Priests and scribes had a high social status in Mesopotamia (True / False)
True