Unit 2 Quiz Flashcards
Civilization
A group of people who feel the need to protect each other, so they have a government, housing, a steady food supply, arts,. sciences, and social structure.
Levee
A wall of Earth or mud between river and land.
Scribe
A person’s job is to write things down.
Artisan
Somebody who works with visual arts.
Cuneiform
Writing that uses characters to write.
Babylon
An empire located in the Fertile Crescent.
Hammurabi
A king who created the Hammurabi Code.
Ziggurat
Mesopotamian temple with steps.
Empire
A large group of land with several different groups of people ruled by one ruler.
lex talionis
An eye for an eye.
City-State
An early city which is an independent country with it’s on laws and government.
Urban Settlement
A place where people wanted to stay because they could farm.
If then form
If you kill a rich man as a doctor then you get your hands cut off.
Class structure
King and queen emporor ruler
Religious figures
Elite
Scribes and Artisans
Poor/weak
The Fertile Crescent would have been located in…
Iraq,Israel,Egypt,Palestine,Syria, Lebanon.