Vocab 1
A large arc of rich, or fertile farmland
What is the fertile crescent?
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
What is silt?
More than needed
What is surplus?
this was provided by the 2 mountain ranges
What is protection?
Mesopotamia is known as the land between...
What is "the rivers?"
The division of society by rank and class
What is Social Hierarchy?
The world's first system of writing
What is Cuneiform?
A way of supplying water to an area of land
What is irrigation?
282 laws giving clear consequences developed in Babylon
What is Hammurabi's Code?
religious structures built in the center of town
What are ziggurats?
Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it
Land with different territories and people under single rule
What is an empire?
Picture symbols
What are pictographs?
held the power in the social hierarchy in Mesopotamia
What is king or pharaoh?
the purpose of Hammurabi's code
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
People who performed religious ceremonies
What are priests?
Human-made waterways
What are canals?
the most dangerous contribution of the Assyrians
What is war?
the body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates empty into
What is the Persian Gulf?
The type of agreement in which each work specializes in a particular task or job.
What is division of labor?
Long poems that tell stories of heroes
What is an epic?
a writer
What is a scribe?
What is it allowed people to communicate in writing and keep records?
What is fertile soil and other natural resources?