Ancient Mesopotamia

a set of letters that can be combined to form words

• architecture
• alphabet
• epics
• Hammurabi's Code

the science of building

• cuneiform
• irrigation
• canal
• architecture

a human-made waterway

• chariot
• canal
• city-state
• cuneiform

a two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart, often used in battle

• chariot
• canal
• empire
• irrigation

a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• empire
• division of labor
• city-state
• Fertile Crescent

Mesopotamian writing using a wedge-shaped instrument; the world’s first system of writing; developed in Sumer

• cunieform
• epics
• alphabet
• Hammurabi's Code

an arrangement in which worker specializes in a specific task or job

• division of labor
• empire
• architecture 
• pictographs

a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler

• city-state
• empire
• rural
• urban

a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

• epic

• pictograph

• cuneiform
• alphabet

an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began 

• irrigation
• empire
• Fertile Crescent
• city-state