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A complex society with cities, a government, religion, a writing system, different jobs, and advances technologies, all developed by people living together in settled communities.
What is civilization?
An ancient writing system that was used in the Middle East for over 3,000 years....
What is cuneiform?
People who bought and sold goods, traveling along established trade routes to move them from one place to another.
A group of people with similar amounts of power and money due to their birth job.
What is social class?
A written legal code created by the Babylonian King Hammurabi. It was one of the first written legal documents and contained 282 laws.
What is code of laws?
painting and drawing on stone or cave walls that depict words or ideas.
what is pictograph?
a tired, pyramid-shaped temple tower built that served as a religious and architectural structure.
What is ziggurat?
An ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia region of the Fertile Crescent situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Sumer
the system of producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services within a society, primarily focused on agriculture, household production, and limited trade, often characterized by bartering (exchange a good for another good).
What is economy?
A large area of land with multiple city-states, where a singular ruler, usually a powerful king, held full political control.
What is empire?
The geological region where the Mesopotamian civilization developed it's land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Today it's modern-day Iraq, parts of eastern Syria, and southeastern Turkey or known as The Middle East.
What is southwest Asia?
An independent, self-governing city that functioned as a small nation, with its own ruler.
What is city-state
One of the two major rivers, alongside Tigris, that formed the fertile land between them.
What is Euphrates rivers?
One of the two major rivers, alongside the Euphrates, that formed the fertile land between them.
What is Tigris river?
Highly educated professionals who were responsible for writing, reading, and interpreting text.
What is Scribe?
A skilled worker who made goods such as tools, cloth, and weapons.
What is artisan?
Earth walls built along the sides of rivers to prevent flooding and to provide water for irrigation.
What is levee?
the practice of directing water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, through a network of canals, onto agricultural fields to provide a controlled water supply for growing crops.
What is irrigation?
The practice of developing farm crops like barely and beans, raising sheep, and utilizing sophisticated irrigation systems to farm.
What is agriculture?
A rich and nutritious soil (fertile) that was deposited on the land by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers when they flooded.
What is silt?