Chapter 2: The Fertile Crescent Flashcards
What is a Bazaar?
A market where people could buy cotton cloth and spices.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
A region in Southwest Asia that was the site of the worlds first civilization.
What is a City-State?
A city that is also a separate independent state.
What is Polytheism?
A belief in many gods
Scribe
A professional writer
myth
A traditional story in some cultures a legend that explains people’s beliefs.
Ziggurat
The site of the temple to the main god or goddess
How did geography make the rise of civilization in the Fertile Crescent possible?
Geographic features that helped make the Fertile Crescent possible were the soil and the life giving rivers
Describe what a city in Sumer may have looked like.
When marketplace you MERCHANTS with displayed goods, musicians, acrobats, beggars filled the streets.
How many laws did the Code of Hammurabi have?
a collection of 282 rules
What led to the fall of Sumer?
Fights over land and Water
What is an Empire?
An area of many territories and people that is controlled by one government.
Bablylon
The center of the babylonian empire
