Fertile Crescent

A complex culture with advanced cities and technology, specialized workers, complex institution and a system of record-keeping.

• institution

• civilization

• specialization

Skilled workers who make goods by hands.

• artisans

• artist

• magicians

A long lasting pattern of organization in a community.

• institution

• specialization

• civilization

The development of skills in a special kind of work.

• specialization

• organization

• institution

Trading of goods and services without money.

• barter

• entrepreneurship

• trading

Sumerian form of writing.

• cuneiform

• hieroglyphs

• Indus Script

The earliest city-states of the Sumerians.

• Ur

• Eridu

• Kish

Present day Sumer -

• Iran

• Iraq

• Saudi Arabia

The belief in many gods -

• monotheist

• atheist

• polytheist

No belief in god -

• atheist

• monotheist

• polytheist