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Vocabulary
City-States
Schools & Family
Leaders
Contributions
100
a way of life
What is culture
100
class of priests and merchants
What is upper?
100
had to support parents when they grew old and obey older family members
What are children?
100
conqueror from Akkad who formed the world's first empire
Who is Sargon?
100
used to grow more food with less effort
What is a plow?
200
Sumerian writer
What is a scribe?
200
class of government officials, artisans, shopkeepers, doctors
What is middle?
200
head of household
What is the father?
200
one code that covered almost everything in daily life
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
replaced muscle power with wind power
What is a sailboat?
300
a group of states under one ruler
What is an empire?
300
class of farmers, unskilled workers, fishers
What is lower?
300
tablet houses
What are schools?
300
extended his rule to the Mediterranean Sea completing the Fertile Crescent
Who is Hammurabi?
300
number system based on this
What is 60?
400
governmental and religious leaders
What are priest-kings?
400
temple at the center of city-states
What is ziggurat?
400
first form of writing
What is cuneiform?
400
he was the king of both Sumer and Akkad
Who is Sargon?
400
used to tell time at night
What is a water clock?
500
built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for a wife
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
all forces of nature were alive
What are their beliefs?
500
could buy and sell property, run businesses, own and sell slaves
What are the women?
500
one of the most famous priest-kings
Who is Gilgamesh?
500
used to move things more easily
What is the wheel?