Fertile Crescent
A large arch of rich, or fertile, farming land
Silt
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Irrigation
A way of supplying water to an area of land
Canals
Human-made waterways
Surplus
More than needed, a stock
Division Of Labor
The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
Rural
Countryside
Urban
City
City-State
Consists of a city and all the countryside around it
Gilgamesh
One of Uruk’s king’s
Sargon
The Akkadian emporor
Empire
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
Polytheism
The worship of many gods
Priests
People who performed religous ceremonies
Social Hierarchy
The division of society by rank or class
Cuneiform
The world’s first system of writing
Pictographs
Picture Symbols
Scribe
Writer
Epics
Long poems that tell stories of heroes
Architecture
The science of building
Ziggurat
A pyramid-shaped temple tower
Monarch
A ruler of a kingdom
Hammurabi’s Code
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
Chariot
A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
Nebuchadnezzar
The most famous Chaldean king
Alphabet
A set of letters that can be combined to form words