Geography
The basic political unit of Sumer, consisting of a city and the land around it.
What is a city-state.
An organized society within a specific area
What is civilization?
The invention of this allowed people to settle into communities
What is farming
The ruler of a kingdom or empire
What is monarch, king/queen
An arc of land with very good soil for farming, surrounded by a desert (semiarid) region between the Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, in Southwest Asia.
What is the fertile crescent
The world's first civilization developed in this city in southern Mesopotamia around 3300BC.
What is Sumer?
He was the leader of the Akkadians, broke peace with Sumerians because he wanted to extended Akkadian territory, and established a permanent army.
Who is Sargon?
An arrangement in which workers specialize in a particular task or job.
What is a division of labor?
The countryside areas where most Sumerians lived; the opposite of Urban - City areas
What is rural?
In Greek means "land between rivers"; a part of the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
He was the king of the Babylonian Empire, established a tax collection system to fund building projects, and created a written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
What is an empire?
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes
What are epics?
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life - everything from trade, loans, and theft to marriage, injury, and murder.
What is Hammurabi's Code
A king of Uruk, who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
Who is Gilgamesh
This allowed farmers to grow a surplus of food so therefore everyone did not have to participate in agricultures and could specialize in other areas
What is an irrigation system?
The daughter of Sargon, one of the few women in ancient Mesopotamia who could write and was a high priestess.
Who is Enheduanna?
As societies settled, these developed. Which divided society by rank or class
What is social hierarchy
In ancient Mesopotamia a rectangular stepped tower, used as a religious temple
What is a ziggurat