Ancient River Valley Civilizations: Mesopotamia

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  1. 4. Materials or substances such as minerals, forests water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used by people for economic gain
  2. 5. A Babylonian King is created with building the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon and destroyed much of Jerusalem
  3. 10. person who has the ability to write in ancient times. Often used to keep records for the goverment
  4. 12. Is a system where people focus on creating one thing and become specialists in that producing more than they can use and selling the rest
  5. 13. Believed to the worlds oldest great work of literature that dates back to at least 2100 BCE. The story is known to have influence many Biblical stories
  6. 14. The "land between the rivers" a general names for the area and the people where civilization first developed
  7. 15. A society or family that is based around the males
  8. 18. Archaeological evidence suggests that the city-state of Ur invented the wheel around 3500 BCE considered most important mechanical invention of farming
  9. 19. A muddy material left behind after a river floods. The material is often a rich nutrients needed in good farmland
  10. 21. A method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture
  11. 22. A time period beginning around 3000 BCE where humans began using metal to make tools also humans began developing significance urban development
  12. 23. The exchange of goods and services of other goods and services
  13. 24. One of the earliest forms of writing developed by mankind
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  1. 1. The world's oldest complete Code of Law. Created around 1800 BCE in Babylon, the laws listed crime and punishments
  2. 2. A society that is based around agriculture and cannot survive without producing much of their own food
  3. 3. Two parallel rivers in Iraq and Syria where civilization first developed around. The rivers flooded annually providing rich farmland for humans use.
  4. 6. The belief in multiple gods or goddesses in religion
  5. 7. A system of organization into groups and rank order them in order of importance to the society. Often uses a pyramid shape
  6. 8. World's oldest calendar based on lunar cycle and used 354 a year
  7. 9. Also called the cradle of civilization, an area of modern day Iraq, Syria and Turkey where human civilization developed
  8. 11. Metal tool that is used to carve open the ground planting-likely dates back about 3200 BCE. Revolutionary invention in the development of farming
  9. 16. A small independent city that operates like a tiny country. Controls city lands surrounding with own government
  10. 17. A mostly flat area of land that sits near a water source that floods. The flooding often helps create a rich farmland
  11. 20. A Mesopotamian religious temple. Ziggurats are tiered buildings and where often the biggest and most important buliding within a city-state