Mesopotamia Vocabulary

2. A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks brought to farmland by rivers that made the land great for farming
3. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
7. The oldest known work of literature; a long poem about a great Sumerian king
11. a city and its surrounding territory that had its own king and main god
13. first written set of laws
14. an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began

1. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
4. Belief in many gods
5. A way of supplying water to an area of land
6. A pyramid shaped temple built to worship the gods
8. A government ruled by a king or queen
9. The science of working with metals; extracting metals from the earth
10. the world's first system of writing
12. people in early civilizations who knew how to read and write; primary job was tracking trade and tax collections