Chapter 1 Section 2 Social Studies

Complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system.

• civilizations

• empire

• artisan

Group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government.

• artisan

• empire

• scribe

Skilled craftsman (makes pottery, farmers, cloth, and metal products)

• Sargon

• Artisan

• Empire

Record keeper

• scribe

• artisan

• empire

Method of brining water to a field from another place to water crops.

• empire

• irrigation

• scribe

Sumerians system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings.

• Sargon

• cuneiform

• civilizations

Independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages.

• city-state

• Sumer

• empire

King of the Akkadians that set up the world's first empire.

• Sargon

• Sumer

• Babylon

Region of cities that formed in southern Mesopotamia.

• Sargon

• Sumer

• Babylon

City located on the Euphrates River that became a center for trade.

• Sumer

• Sargon

• Babylon