Section 2
A countryside
Rural
An Akkadian emperor
Sargon
The world's first system of writing
Cuneiform
A ruler of a kingdom or empire
Monarch
A pyramid-shaped temple tower
A city
Urban
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
Empire
Picture symbols
Pictographs
A set of two laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
Hammurabi's Code
More than needed
Surplus
Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it.
City-State
The worship of many gods
Polytheism
Scribe
Chariot
A wheeled horse-drawn cart used in battle
Human-made waterways
Canals
One of Uruk's kings
Gilgamesh
People who performed religious ceremonies
Priests
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes
Epics
The most famous Chaldean king
Nebuchadnezzar
A way of supplying water to an area of land
Irrigation
An Akkadian emperor
Sargon
The division of society by rank or class
Social Hierarchy
The science of building
A set of letters that can be combined to form words
Alphabet
The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
Division of labor