CL 3 vocab

Question 1

fertile crescent

Answer 1

a large arc of rich or firtle farm land

Question 2

slit

Answer 2

a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks

Question 3

irrigation

Answer 3

a way of supplying water to an area of land

Question 4

canals

Answer 4

human-made waterways

Question 5

surplus

Answer 5

more than they need

Question 6

division of labor

Answer 6

the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a paticular task or

Question 7

rural

Answer 7

countryside

Question 8

urban

Answer 8

city

Question 9

city-state

Answer 9

all of the country side around it

Question 10

sargon

Answer 10

extend akkadian territory

Question 11

empire

Answer 11

land with different territories and peoples under a single rule

Question 12

polytheism

Answer 12

the worship of many gods

Question 13

priests

Answer 13

people who preformed religious ceremonies

Question 14

social hierarchy

Answer 14

the division of society by rank or class

Question 15

pictographs

Answer 15

picture symbols

Question 16

scribe

Answer 16

writter

Question 17

epics

Answer 17

long poems that tell the stories of heros

Question 18

architecture

Answer 18

the science of building

Question 19

ziggurat

Answer 19

a pyramid shaped temple tower

Question 20

hammurabis code

Answer 20

was a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

Question 21

charrot

Answer 21

horse drawn cart used in balttle

Question 22

nebuchadnezzar

Answer 22

the most famous king

Question 23

alphebet

Answer 23

a set of letters that can be comibined to form words