Chapter 3 Section 1 &2 Vocabualry

relating to farm areas and life in the country

• urban

• canals

• rural

• surplus

A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland

• division of labor

• social hierarchy

• Fertile Crescent

• irrigation

a away of supplying water to an area of land

• irrigation

• division of labor

• social hierarchy

• Fertile Crescent

The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job

• division of labor

• social hierarchy

• irrigation

• polytheism

Since the King had a ___________ of grain, he decide to trade the grain for tools.

• silt

• surplus

• canals

• urban

If you live in Los Angeles your are living an __________life.

• Fertile Crescent

• rural

• urban

• empire

A land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.

• city-state

• division of labor

• polytheism

• empire

The worship of many gods.

• surplus

• monotheism

• polytheism

• canals

The Sumerians built________________ in order to irrigate their crops.

• silt

• canals

• empire

• houses

A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside.

• fertile crescent

• rural

• urban

• city-state