Chapter 3 Flashcards
Fertile Cresent
An arch of rich, or fertile, farm land
Silt
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Irrigation
A way of supplying water to an area of land
Canals
Human made waterways
Surplus
More than they needed
DIvision Of Labor
A type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
Rural
Countryside
Urban
City
City-State
Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it
Gilgamesh
One of Uruk’s kings
Sargon
Sought to extend Akkadian
Empire
Land with different territories and people under a single rule
Polytheism
The worship of many gods
Priests
People who performed religious ceremonies
Social Hierarchy
The division of society by rank or class
Cuneiform
The world’s first system of writing
Pictographs
Picture symbols
Scribe
writer
Epics
Long poems that tell stories about heroes
Architecture
The science of building
Ziggurat
A pyramid shaped temple tower
Monarch
Ruler of a kingdom or empire
Hammurabi’s Code
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
Chariot
A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
Nebuchadnezzar
The most famous Chaldean King
Alphabet
Is a set of letters that can be combined to form words