The Fertile Crescent Review

This is a system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for words, ideas or sounds

• Alphabet

• Hieroglyphics

• Cunieform

To make a gain

• Profit

• Money

• Barter

An independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory.

• City

• State

• City-State

This is a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire

• U.S. Consistution

• Hammurabis Code

• Ten Commandments

• Mr. Jones 2 Rules

The belief in more than one god

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

• Multitheism

To supply water

• Irrigate

• Plumbing

• River

A state containing several countries or territories

• Government

• Country

• Empire

A trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.

• Trading

• Barter

• Shopping

• Stealing

A payment or gift to a stronger power

• Sacrifice

• Tribute

• Worshipping Mr. Jones

• Giving Mr. Jones Middlesworth BBQ chips

A region in the Middle East, with good conditions for growing crops, that stretches in a large, crescent shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.

• Fertile Crescent

• Sumer

• Babylonia

• Mesopotamia