Mesopotamia Flashcards
Artisans:
a skilled craftsman
ca:
circa/around
BC:
before Christ
AD:
Anno domini/ After death
BCE:
Before common era
Ce:
common era
cuneiform:
wedge shaped writing
cylinder seal:
record of the ziggurats architecture
SMEELL Z CANDLE
SO GOOD
Epic:
a very long poem that tells the story of a hero
fertile crescent:
curved area from the Persain gulf to the meditarian sea
polytheism:
believing in more than one God
Mesopotamia:
land between rivers
scribe:
someone who records information.
EAT A STRAWBERRY
DELISHIOUUUUUIS
Surplus:
More than enough food
Ziggurat:
a pyramid like structure that was the center of religion in a sumarine city state
bartering significance:
trading without money
Hammerabis code
laws made by hammarabi
Sargon 1
he established the first empire and conquered a lot of places
sir Leonard Wooly:
He excavated Mesopotamia
significance of Surplus:
People got more Jobs
look in the mirror
ur very beautiful