Mesopotamia
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- chariot
- a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
- city-state
- a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
- polytheism
- the worship of many gods
- architecture
- the science of building
- ziggurat
- a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer
- epics
- long poems that tell the stories of heroes
- silt
- a mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming
- alphabet
- a set of letters that can be combined to form words
- Hammurabri's Code
- a unified code of 282 laws that was produced during his reign
- pictographs
- a picture symbol
- scribe
- a writer
- rural
- a countryside area
- cuneiform
- the world's first system of writing; developed in Sumer
- priest
- a person who performs religious ceremonies
- empire
- land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
- Fertile Crescent
- an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
- urban
- a city area
- social hierarchy
- the division of society by rank or class
- Sargon
- King of Akkad (a land north of Sumer); he built the world's first empire after defeating Sumer and northern Mesopotamia
- Gilgamesh
- King of Urak (a city-state in Sumer); he became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature