Sumerian writing system made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool (or stylus)into clay tablets.

• ziggurat

• Theocracy

• hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

The process of cultivating plants and/or training animals to make them more useful to humans.

• irrigation

• Domestication

• Agriculture

• specialization

The practice or business of farming.

• domestication

• Agriculture

• cuneiform

• ziggurat

An amount that is more than what is needed.

• storage

• break even

• shortage

• surplus

A tired or layered pyramid-shaped structure that formed part of a Sumerian temple.

• Ziggurat

• Irrigation

• Sumer

• Hieroglyphics

An area constituting a city or town.

• Rural area

• Urban ares

• city area

• country area

The earliest civilizations that developed around rivers for the fresh water supply and the fertile land. Ex- (Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China)

• Complex institutions

• Hammurabi's code

• River Valley Civilizations

• advanced technology

First civilization located between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means “land between the rivers”. Sumerian culture.

• Mesopotamia

• Sumer

• Nile

• Mohenjo

A region of city-states in southern Mesopotamia that is considered to be the first civilization.

• The Nile

• Israelites

• Mohenjo and Harappa

• Sumer

What evidence shows that the Indus civilization had a well-organized government?

• Record keeping

• advanced institutions

• advanced technology

• cuneiform