CH 4 Mesopotamia

1. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
6. A way of supplying water to an area of land
7. A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
8. human-made waterways
10. Crescent A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland
12. a person who performs religious ceremonies
15. the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
16. Belief in many gods
17. a person who writes things down
20. a set of letters that can be combined to form words
21. A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.

2. A picture or drawing representing words or ideas
3. The world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which existed for over 3,000 years.
4. a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in ancient warfare and racing.
5. hierarchy the division of society by rank or class
8. of Hammurabi A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
9. massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown.
11. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
13. A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded
14. of labor the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
18. A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
19. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)