World History Chapter 3

Question 1

Fertile Crescen

Answer 1

a large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland

Question 2

silt

Answer 2

a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks

Question 3

irrigation

Answer 3

a way of supplying water to an area of land

Question 4

canals

Answer 4

human-made waterways

Question 5

surplus

Answer 5

more than they needed

Question 6

division of labor

Answer 6

a particular task

Question 7

rural

Answer 7

countryside

Question 8

urban

Answer 8

city

Question 9

city-state

Answer 9

a city and all the countryside around it

Question 10

Gilgamesh

Answer 10

Uruk’s king

Question 11

Sargon

Answer 11

served Ur-Zababa

Question 12

empire

Answer 12

land with different territories and people under a single rule.

Question 13

polytheism

Answer 13

the worship of many gods

Question 14

priests

Answer 14

people who performed religious ceremonies

Question 15

social hierarchy

Answer 15

the division of society by rank or class

Question 16

cuneiform

Answer 16

the world’s first system of writing

Question 17

pictographs

Answer 17

picture symbols

Question 18

scribe

Answer 18

writer

Question 19

epics

Answer 19

long poems that tell the story of heroes

Question 20

architecture

Answer 20

the science of buildings

Question 21

ziggurat

Answer 21

a pyramid shaped temple tower

Question 22

monarch

Answer 22

a ruler of a kingdom or empire

Question 23

Hammurabi’s Code

Answer 23

a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

Question 24

chariot

Answer 24

a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle

Question 25

Nebuchadnezzar

Answer 25

the most famous Chaldean king

Question 26

alphabet

Answer 26

a set of letters that can be combined to form words