Chapter 4 Mesopotamia 19-20

A water system used to water the fields

• Canals
• surplus
• epics
• irrigation

land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.

• provinces
• city-states
• monarch
• empire

ruler of the city Uruk.

• Gilgamesh
• Hammurabi
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Sargon

long poems that tell the stories of heroes.

• hierarchy
• epics
• surplus
• monarch

a ruler of a kingdom or empire.

• canals
• monarch
• empire
• surplus

most famous Chaldean king

• Hammurabi
• Sargon
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Gilgamesh

A city and the surrounding countryside.

• provinces
• monarch
• city-state
• empire

The first system of writing

• polytheism
• cuneiform
• hieroglyphics

the person hired to keep track of items people traded.

• scribe
• accountant
• surplus
• monarch

first ruler to have a permanent army

• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Sargon