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City-States
History
Jobs
100
a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle; the Assyrians invented it
Chariot
100
land with different territories under the same rule
empire
100
Cuneiform, the first system of writing, was made by the...
Sumerians
100
a set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of writing laws
Hammurabi's Code
100
an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
division of labor
200
a set of letters that can be combined to form words
alphabet
200
the science of building
architecture
200
Beautiful City, wealthy, and the center of trade
Babylonia
200
an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
Fertile Crescent
200
people who perform religious ceremonies
priests
300
picture symbols
Pictographs
300
a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
city-state
300
Experts in war, battering ram, and chariots
Assyria
300
long poems that tell the stories of heroes
epics
300
a writer
scribe
400
a set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of writing laws
Hammurabi's Code
400
finely ground fertile soil that is good for growing crops
silt
400
The City Name before it became Assyria
Nineveh
400
a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer
ziggurat
400
"Legendary" Figure
Gilgamesh
500
a way of supplying water to an area of land
irrigation canal
500
the worship of many gods
Polytheism
500
Developed the Calendar
Sumer
500
the division of society by rank or class
Social hierarchy
500
Rebuilt Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar II