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Vocabulary
People
Civilization
Geography
Mixed
100
a long period of dry weather
What is drought?
100
people who used irrigation to help their crops
Who is farmers?
100
a city that is self-governed and has its own traditions
What is a city-state?
100
land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
100
first set of written laws
What is Hammurabbi's Code of Laws?
200
soil that is rich in vitamins & nutrients
What is fertile?
200
name of the people of the world's first empire
What is Sumerians?
200
the belief in one God
What is monotheism?
200
name of the 2 rivers that bordered Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
200
the Code of Laws treated people this way
What is unfairly?
300
an extra supply of something
What is surplus?
300
a professional writer. One who records information such as trades
Who are scribes?
300
the belief in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheism?
300
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers empty into this
What is Persian Gulf?
300
world's first empire
What is Sumer?
400
a form of writing developed in Sumer
What is cuneiform?
400
united the city-states of Sumer to create the first empire
Who is Sargon?
400
a large temple usually located in the center of a city-state
What is ziggurat?
400
the modern-day country where Mesopotamia was located
What is Iraq?
400
cuneiforms led to this
What is keeping records? like trade info & marriage info
500
an organized community with established rules & tradition
What is society?
500
ruled Babylonia, created a code of laws
Who is Hammurabbi?
500
since there was a surplus of food, people could ____ instead of farm
What is trade?
500
the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers start here
What is the Taurus Mountains?
500
the Code of Laws was to _______ the people
What is protect?