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Chapter 4 (Ancient) Mesopotamia
Section 1 The Geography of the Fertile Crescent
Vocabulary p. 87
Drought – A long period of dry weather.
Famine – A widespread lack of food resulting in hunger and starvation.
Surplus – An extra supply of something, such as food.
Barter – Trade of one kind of product for another without the use of money.
Fertile Crescent –A fertile region in the Middle East. The Fertile Crescent
was an important birthplace of civilization.
6. Mesopotamia – The “land between two rivers”; referring to the region
between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Mesopotamia
was the birthplace of Sumerian and Babylonian civilization.
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Section 2 Mesopotamian Civilization
Vocabulary p. 90
7. City – State – A self – governing city and the lands surrounding it.
8. Ziggurat –.
9. Cuneiform – A system of writing developed in ancient umeria that used
wedge – shaped symbols.
10.Code of Hammurabi – The world’s first system of laws, recorded by
Hammurabi, King of Babylonia, about 1700 B.C.
11.Hammurabi – Babylonian ruler; recorded the first system of laws, known as
the Code of Hammurabi.
12.Sumer – An ancient civilization in southern Mesopotamia. Sumer was the
first civilization to emerge in the Fertile Crescent.
13.Babylon –. An ancient city in Mesopotamia and the capital of a vast empire
that covered the Fertile Crescent.