Module 2 Vocabulary

a large arc of rich fertile farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

• Sumer

• Fertile Crescent

• Tigris River

• civilization

a mix of rich soil and small rocks

• silt

• soil

• irrigation

• Fertile Crescent

having to do with the countryside

• city-state

• urban

• rural

• epics

long poems that tell stories of heroes. One of the first examples was written about the king Gilgamesh

• scribes

• canals

• epics

• ziggurat

the earliest known written collection of laws

• Silt

• Mesopotamia

• Hammurabi's Code

• Urban

a way of supplying water to an area of land

• silt

• surplus

• empire

• irrigation

having to do with the city

• rural

• urban

• city-state

• empire

the world's first system of writing

• scribe

• ziggurat

• cuneiform

• polytheism

a pyramid shaped temple tower

• ziggurat

• priest

• cuneiform

• Gilgamesh

a political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside

• scribe

• empire

• city-state

• civilization