Unit 2
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- irrigation
- way of supplying water to an area of land
- social hierarchy
- the division of society by rank or class
- architecture
- the science of building
- polytheism
- the worship of many GOds
- Nebuchadnessar
- the most famous Chaldeon king who rebuit Babylon into a beautiful city
- Fertile crescent
- large arc of of rich, or fertile farmland
- Hittites
- First to master ironworking, they made the strongest weapons at the time. Their kingdom was in Asia Minor which is now known as Turkey. They used chariots to fight in battle.
- chariot
- a wheeled horse drawn cart in battle
- Chaldeons
- a group from the Syrien dessert. they admired Sumerian culture and studied their language
- Babylon
- city located near on Euphrates rive near what is today Baghdad, Iraq. It was once a Sumerian Town. Hammarabi was its king . He craated a tax collection system and brought much prosperity thougt increase trade
- canal
- human made waterways
- monarch
- a ruler of a kingdonw or empire
- city-state
- consist of a city and all the country side around it
- pictographs
- picture symbols
- Rural
- countreyside
- urban
- city like
- priest
- people who performed religious ceremonies
- alphabet
- set of letters that can be combined to form words
- sargon
- Akkadian emperor and first ruler to have a permenant army. He was an orphan
- Cylinder seals
- Sumers most famous works of art. Stone cylindars engraved with designs. When rolled over clay they would leave their imprint. Some people used cykinder seals to sign doncuments.
- siggurat
- a pyramid shaped temple tower
- empire
- land with different territories and people under a single rulew
- Cuneifrom
- the worlds first system of writing
- silt
- mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
- Hammarbi's code
- a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
- Gilgamesh
- an Uruk king and legendary figure in Sumerian literature
- division oflabor
- type of arrangment in which each worker specializes in a particualr task or job
- epics
- long poems that tell the stories of heros
- scribe
- a writer
- surplus
- more then needed