Vocabulary I
A word that means "a new way of doing things"
What is Innovation?
What is Mesopotamia?
An extra supply.
What is a Surplus?
What is the Euphrates?
A region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent shape curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The sharing of large jobs so that each worker does only part of it.
What is Division of Labor?
An invention created around 3000 B.C. that made transportation of goods easier and faster.
What was the Wheel?
A disagreement between two or more people or groups.
What is Conflict?
The second largest river in Western Asia.
What is the Tigris?
An independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal.
What is an ally?
A drawing or symbol used to represent a word.
What is a Pictograph?
The three main independent cities in Southern Mesopotamia that had a political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
What are Eridu, Ur, and Urak.
A form of ancient writing.
What is Cuneiform?
Where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers originate and are fed with alpine snows, lakes and rains.
What are the Taurus mountains?
Soldiers who fight while riding horses.
What is a Cavalry?
A system of government in which one person has complete control.
What is Absolute Authority?
An arc of land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf that had rich soil and abundant crops to sustain life in the early civilization.
What is called the Fertile Crescent?
The system of government in which a king or a queen rules.
What is a Monarchy?
The length of the Tigris River.
What is 1,850 kilometers or 1,150 miles?
The art of steering a ship from place to place.
What is Navigation?
A form of government in which the national government maintains the power.
What is Centralized Government?
The four civilizations that evolved in Mesopotamia.
What are the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
Vast lands and varied people that come under control of a single government.
What is an Empire?
The length of the Euphrates River.
What is 2,800 kilometers or 1,740 miles?
A small set of letters or symbols.
What is the alphabet?