Vocabulary 1
Fine soil deposited by the river
Silt
Who was the first ruler of an empire?
Sargon
Mesopotamia is located between what two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
Name of Sargon's Empire
Akkadian Empire
Important inventions of the Sumerians
Plow and wheel
Not enough rain or snow
Drought
Highest ranked leader
King
A place that includes its city and nearby farming villages
City-state
When crops don't grow and people don't have food to eat
Starve
Mesopotamians had a surplus of
Grain
Belief in many gods
Polytheism
The people at the top of the social classes
Kings and priests
Largest and most important structure in the center of the city was the temple. Also known as...
Ziggurat
Symbols used for writing, looked like pictures
Pictograph
Created a Code of Laws
Hammurabi
Wedge shaped writing that was made after picture writing
Cuneiform
Lowest class of people
Slaves
City that civilization rose about 3300 B.C.
Sumer
Sharp reed used to press marks into clay tablets
Stylus
A system to water crops
Irrigation
Skilled workers are called...
Artisans
People who were allowed to write
Scribes
Land that had rich soil and water that made this area good for farming
A metal that was a mixture of copper and tin
Bronze
Fair treatment of others
Justice