Ch 4. L 1-2 Vocab Mesopotamia McGraw Hill World History

a pyramid-shaped temple with a shire on top

• ziggurat

• irrigtaion

• plotheism

a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory.

• civilization

• Mesopotamia

• city-state

• Gilgamesh

a form of writing developed by the people of Sumer

• astronomers

• cuneiform

• irrigation

• ziggurat

a method that brings water to crops

• irrigiation

• ziggurat

• astronomers

• civilization

A pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top.

• civlization

• ziggurat

• Mesopotamia

• city-state

Independent territories that make up a civilization (Sumer, Babylonia, Assyrian)

• Polytheism

• Empire

• Pictographs

• Social Hierarchy

Producing more goods or crops than was needed

• Used for trade or storage

• Cuneiform

• Surplus

• Fertile Crescent

• Silt

The world’s first system of writing

Used for keeping records on clay tablets

• Division of Labor

• Silt

• Cuneiform

• Polytheism

The belief in many gods - different gods for different aspects of life.

• Irrigation

• Polytheism

• Cuneiform

• Ziggurat

A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile - used for Farming

• Pictographs

• Irrigation

• Surplus

• Silt