Monotheism is the worship of one god; while this is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Someone who writes and records information.
What is a scribe?
100
A set of letters that can be put together to make words.
What is an alphabet?
200
The arrangement in which each worker specialized in a particular task or job.
What is division of labor?
200
The opposite of urban (the city) is...(in the countryside)
What is rural?
200
It is the world's first writing system.
What is cuneiform?
200
Is the ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
300
The difference between irrigation and canals.
What is irrigation controls water and brings it to crops while canals are a type of human-made irrigation system.
300
It is when society is divided by rank or class. For example, kings are the highest class above the priests, while slaves are the lowest class under laborers an farmers.
What is social hierarchy?
300
A long poem that tells the story of a hero or heroes.
What is an epic poem.
300
The first set of written laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life, that was available for all to see.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
In Mesopotamia, this allowed cities to grow and develop because they did not have to hunt and gather for food.
What is farming?
400
The political area that includes a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
400
It is a pyramid shaped temple-tower.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The science of building.
What is architecture?
500
It is the rich, fertile farmland between the Tigris and Euphrates River.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The term that describes the land where people of different territories were under a single rule. Sargon was the first in the world to build this type of land.
What is an empire?
500
One of the Sumerian's most important developments that is used on carts and wagons, device that spins clay, and chariots.
what is the wheel?
500
The large arc of rich, or fertile farmland that includes Mesopotamia and extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.