mesopotamia Flashcards

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Mesopotamia

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A Greek word meaning land between the rivers

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Fertile Crescent

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A large arc of rich or fertile farmland

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Silt

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A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile

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Irrigation

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A way of controlling water for farming

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Division of Labor

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A system that divides people into jobs

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Empire

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Independent territories that make up a civilization

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Social Hierarchy

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A system that divides people into classes based on the job of your family.

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Cuneiform

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The world’s first system of writing.

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Scribe

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A job of a person who wrote on clay tablets to keep records.

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Ziggurat

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A pyramid-shaped temple

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Surplus

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Producing more goods or crops than needed

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Hammurabi’s Code

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The first set of 282 laws created by king Hammurabi

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