Vocab 1
a group of states (or city-states) under a single authority
What is an empire?
The science of buildings.
What is architecture?
Who is a nomad?
This is what people used to write cuneiform on
What is clay?
This consisted of a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
This is when a society worships multiple gods and deities
What is polytheism?
The division of society by rank or class.
What is social hierarchy?
True/False: Mesopotamia had great soil for farming.
What is True
This is an area of fertile land in the Middle East.
What is fertile crescent?
A government where priests rule in the name of a god or gods.
A writer.
What is a scribe?
This is where Mesopotamia is today
A society controlled by men, or a society that favors men.
What is patriarchal?
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes
What are epics?
These are picture symbols
What are pictographs?
Mesopotamia means this in greek.
What is "The land between 2 rivers".
The world's first writing system; on clay tablets
What is cuneiform?
A strict and harsh set of laws in ancient Mesopotamia
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
A temple where Sumerians believed gods and goddesses ruled the city.
What is a ziggurat?
What two rivers is Mesopotamia between?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?