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Unit 7 Mesopotamia
VISUAL VOCABULARY
FERTILE CRESCENT

A large arc of
fertile farmland
surrounded by
the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers
SILT

A mixture of rich
soil and tiny
rocks that’s good
for growing crops
IRRIGATION

A man-made way
of supplying
water to an area
of land
SURPLUS

Producing more
than needed
DIVISION OF LABOR

Dividing complex
work into
specialized,
repetitive tasks.
CITY-STATE

Consisting of a
city and all the
countryside
around it
EMPIRE

Land with
different
territories and
people under
single rule
POLYTHEISM

The worship of
many gods
PRIEST

People who
perform religion
ceremonies
SOCIAL HIERARCHY

The division of
society by rank
and class
CUNEIFORM

The world’s first
system of writing
using wedgeshaped marks
PICTOGRAPHS

Picture symbols
SCRIBE

Ancient writers
who wrote books
and kept records
EPICS

Long poems that
told the stories of
heroes
ZIGGURAT

An ancient
religious temple
that resembles a
pyramid
MONARCH

The ruler of a
kingdom or
empire
HAMMURABI’S CODE

Was the set of
282 laws that
dealt with almost
every part of daily
life