Geography Flashcards
Mesopotamia
A greek word meaning “between the rivers”
Fertile Crescent
A large arc of rich or fertile farmland
silt
A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile.
Irrigation
A way of controlling water for farming
division of laber
A system that divides people into jobs
empire
Independent territories that make up a territories
social Hierarchy
A system that divides people into classes based on the job of your family
cuneiform
the world’s first system of writting
scribe
A job of a person who wrote on clay tablets to keep records.
ziggrates
surplus
A producng more goods or crops than needed
Hammurabi’s code
The first set of 282 laws created by king Hammurabi’s.
Society
Men and women both worked in Mesopotamia, and most were involved in farming.
floods and droughts
they used levees and canals to put on the walls.
Characteristics
The cultures of Mesopotamia are considered civilizations because their people:
