Mesopotamia Study Guide

belief in many gods

• polytheism

• monotheism

• atheism

• agnosticism

world’s first system of writing developed by the Sumerians

• cuneiform

• hieroglyphics

• alphabet

• calligraphy

more than what is needed

• surplus

• deficit

• shortage

• necessity

first written list of 282 laws and punishments

• Hammurabi’s Code

• Magna Carta

• Twelve Tables

• Code of Justinian

stepped temple built to honor the gods

• ziggurat

• pyramid

• colosseum

• acropolis

a way of supplying water to an area of land

• irrigation

• erosion

• fertilization

• deforestation

a small, self-governing state that includes the villages and surrounding farmland

• city-state

• empire

• colony

• province

arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task

• division of labor

• barter system

• supply chain

• market equilibrium

human-made waterways that were used to move water from one place to another

• Canals

• Mountains

• Deserts

• Forests

means land between the rivers

• Mesopotamia

• Sahara

• Himalayas

• Nile