Mesopotamia
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- ziggurat
- a pyramid shaped temple tower
- monarch
- ruler of a kingdom or empire
- urban
- city areas
- surplus
- extra or more than needed
- scribe
- a writer
- city-state
- a city and all of the countryside around it
- rural
- countryside areas
- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- empire
- land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
- silt
- a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
- chariot
- a wheeled horse drawn cart used in battle
- cuneiform
- A style of writing using a wedge shaped symbol
- social hierarchy
- a division of society by rank or class
- canals
- human-made waterways
- Gilgamesh
- a famous hero featured in an epic
- epic
- long poems telling stories of heroes
- priests
- people who perform religious ceremonies
- alphabet
- a set of letters that can be combined to form words
- pictographs
- picture symbols
- irrigation
- a way of supplying water to farmland
- fertile crescent
- large arch of rich, fertile, farmland
- Hammurabi's Code
- a set of 282 laws that dealth with almost every part of daily life
- division of labor
- workers specializing in a particular task or job
- Nebuchadnezzar
- the most famous Chaldean king
- architecture
- the science of building