6th Unit 2, Lesson 5-7

an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government

• empire

• levee

• city-state

the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

• Euphrates River

• Nile River

• Tigris River

a means of supplying land with water

• tunnels

• buckets

• irrigation

a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

• levee

• moat

• bridge

in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

• Iran

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

fine particles of rock

• silt

• gravel

• sand

an area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared

• Sumer

• Chicago

• Cairo

a society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure

• civilization

• city-states

• empire

the way a civilization is organized

• civilization

• pyramid

• social structure

the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes

• culture

• ziggurat

• technology