Rivery Valley Vocab #1

A region in southwest Asia; site of the world's first civilizations.

• Fertile Crescent
• Iraq
• Nomadic Life
• Finger Lakes

A city that is also a separate, independent state.

• Country
• City-Country
• New York City
• City-state

Belief in only one god.

• Oneotheism
• Monotheism
• Polytheism

Capital of the Babylonian Empire and a city of great wealth, luxury and power.

• Babble-on
• Sumer
• Babylon
• Albany

Many territories and peoples controlled by one government.

• Country
• Empire
• Empire Strikes Back
• Neolithic 

Belief in more than one god.

• Manytheism
• Monotheism
• Polytheism
• Multitheism

A group of travelers that are traveling together.

• Sumerians
• Neanderthals
• Caravan
• Dodge Caravan

A time when there is so little food that many people stave.

• Famine
• Stave
• Lunch
• Disease

King of the Babylonian Empire, he was the first ruler to write out a code of laws and post them for his subjects.

• Sargon
• Hammurabi
• Finguerabbi
• Capricorn

Groups of symbols that were lines and wedge shapes; it was used to write many languages in the Fertile Crescent.

• Hieroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Cursive
• English