Mesopotamia- RMS

a city and the countryside around it

• Mesopotamia

• urban

• city-state

• rural

the fine soil deposited by floodwaters

• city-state

• irrigation

• canals

• silt

human-made waterways

• canals

• ziggurat

• empire

• Mesopotamia

each worker specializes in a different job

• Sargon

• rural

• division of labor

• pictographs

countryside

• urban

• rural

• civilization

• architecture

A legendary figure in Sumerian literature

• Sargon

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Nebuchadnezzar

land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

• Sargon

• civilization

• Mesopotamia

• city-state

different land and people under one rule

• surplus

• empire

• Sargon

• Gilgamesh

more than is needed to survive

• urban

• division of labor

• irrigation

• surplus

a way to supply water to an area of land

• epics

• irrigation

• city-state

• Mesopotamia