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Vocabulary Notebook Mesopotamia & The Fertile Crescent
Chapters 3 KIM Vocabulary Due Monday- September 30, 2013
Term
1. Fertile Crescent
2. Silt
3. Irrigation
Definition
an area of rich farmland in
Southwest Asia where the first
civilizations began
a mixture of fertile soil and tiny
rocks that can make land ideal for
farming
a way of supplying water to an area
of land
4. Canals
human-made waterways
5. Surplus
more of something than is needed
6. Division of Labor
an arrangement in which each worker
specializes in a particular task or job
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7. Rural
a countryside area
8. Urban
a city area
9. City-State
a political unit consisting of a city
and its surrounding countryside
10. Empire
land with different territories and
peoples under a single rule
11. Polytheism
the worship of many gods
12. Priest
a person who performs religious
ceremonies
13. Social Hierarchy
the division of society by rank or
class
14. Cuneiform
the world’s first system of writing;
developed in Sumer
15. Pictographs
a picture symbol
16. Scribe
a writer
17. Epics
long poems that tell the stories of
heroes
18. Architecture
the science of building
19. Ziggurat
a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer
20. Monarch
a ruler of a kingdom or empire
21. Hammurabi’s Code
a set of 282 laws governing daily life
in Babylon; the earliest known
collection of written laws
22. Chariot
a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in
battle
23. Alphabet
a set of letters that can be combined
to form words
24. Gilgamesh
(c. 3000 BC) King of Uruk, a citystate in
Sumer, he became a legendary figure in
Sumerian literature.
the most famous Chaldean king, rebuilt
Babylon into a beautiful city. According
to legend, his grand palace featured the
famous Hanging Gardens. The Chaldeans
revived Sumerian culture and made
notable advances in astronomy and
mathematics.
Ruled 2334–2279 BC According to legend,
a gardener found a baby floating in a
basket on a river and raised him as his own
child. This baby later became the
Akkadian emperor Sargon. As a young man,
Sargon served Ur-Zababa, the king of
Kish. Sargon later rebelled against the
Sumerian ruler, took over his city, and
built Akkad into a military power. He was
among the first military leaders to use
soldiers armed with bows and arrows.
Sargon gained the loyalty of his soldiers
by eating with them every day.
25. Nebuchadnezzar (nebuh-kuhd-NEZ-uhr),
26. Sargon