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A craft person.
What is an Artisan?
To train wild animals to be useful to humans.
What is Domesticate?
They believed that this was the origin of the kings power.
What is God?
Found inscribed on stone or clay.
Where was early writing first found?
Fine particles of rock.
What is Silt?
A person who makes money by selling goods.
What is a Merchant?
The business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals.
What is Agriculture?
When one nation rules another nation.
What is Empire?
They invented writing to keep track of trading transactions.
What did the Sumerians invent?
A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure.
What is Civilization?
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purpose.
What is Technology?
Gathering crops.
What is Harvesting?
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with an outside staircase and a shrine on top.
What is a Ziggurat?
A person who writes.
What is a Scribe?
The two largest rivers in southwest Asia that reaches from he mountains Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates River?
A small independent country with its own laws and government.
What is a City-State?
It is arc-shaped with rich soil in Mesopotamia.
Where is the Fertile Crescent?
A place in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared.
What is Sumer?
One of the earliest forms of writing that use pictures.
What is Pictograph?
The geographic area in between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, also known as the “land between two rivers”.
Where is Mesopotamia?
Wealth sent from one country ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.
What is a Tribute?
A way to supply land with water.
What is Irrigation?
The belief that there is more than one god.
What is Polytheis?
A type of writing that uses wedge shape letters.
What is Cuneiform?
They invented this to help them with carrying heavy objects and they also had wheels so they could roll it.
Why did the Sumerians invent the plow?