Geography Flashcards
Mesopotamia
A Greek word meaning land between the rivers
Fertile Crescent
A large arc of rich or fertile farmland
Silt
A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile.
Irrigation
A way of controlling water for farming
Division of Labor
A system that divides people into jobs.
Empire
Independent territories that make up a civilization.
Social Hierarchy
A system that divides people into classes based on the job of your family.
Cuneiform
The world’s first system of writing.
Scribe
A job of a person who wrote on clay tablets to keep records.
Ziggurat
Producing more goods or crops than needed.
Surplus
Producing more goods or crops than needed.
Hammurabi’s Code
The first set of 282 laws created by King Hammurabi.
What happened?
people cut trees to make building and fire wood. Wind and water turned into a desert. Erosion is the wearing away of solid by wind and water.
A culture of Agriculture
In meso people were farmers and raise crops, barley, beans, and more.
Water managements
Get through the flood and droughts. leaves are walls that help keep flood waters under control. The canal system was used to irrigate the filides. Irrigation brings water to the crops from the river.
