Unit 3 Flashcards
Long poems that tell stories of heroes.
Epics
The science of building.
Architecture
A pyramid-shaped, temple tower.
Ziggurat
A ruler of a kingdom or empire.
Monarch
A two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart.
Chariot
A set of letters that can be combined to form words.
Alphabet
A unit of soldiers who ride horses.
Cavalry
An arc of good farmland in Mesopotamia.
Fertile Crescent
Small dirt and rocks in a river.
Silt
When societies settle in one spot and become organized.
Civilization.
To move water to dry land.
Irrigation
Man-made waterways.
Canals
More than what you need.
Surplus
When people can specialize in one job.
Division of labor.
In the City.
Urban
In the countryside.
Rural
Land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
Empire
The belief in more than one god.
Polytheism
A political unit consisting of a city and the land that surrounds it.
City-State
People who perform religious ceremonies.
Priests
Division of society by a person’s rank or status.
Social Hierarchy
The writing system of ancient Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Picture symbols
Pictographs
A Person whose job is to write.
Scribe
