| Vocab 1 | ||
| #1 | A large arc of rich, or fertile farm land | Fertile Crescent |
| #2 | Land with different territories and people under single rule | Empire |
| #3 | The division on a society by rank and class | Social Hierarchy |
| #4 | A pyramid shaped temple tower | Ziggurat |
| #5 | A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life | Hammurabi’s Code |
| Vocab 2 | ||
| #1 | Long Poems that tell stories of heroes | Epics |
| #2 | Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it. | City-State |
| #3 | A way of supplying water to an area of land. | Irrigation |
| #4 | The world’s first system of writing | Cuneiform |
| #5 | The ruler of a kingdom | Monarch |
| Ancient Mesopotamia | ||
| #1 | Belief in many gods | polytheistic |
| #2 | was the king of the city-state of Babylon. About 1800BC, He conquered the nearby city-states and created the kingdom of Babylonia | Hammurabi |
| #3 | Laws engraved in stone and placed in a public location. | Hammurabi's Code |
| #4 | The ruling family was at what level of the class system | Highest Level |
| #5 | What level were the peasant farmers at. | Bottom Level |
| Writing | ||
| #1 | the Sumerians had invented the earliest known form of writing called | cuneiform |
| #2 | The Sumerians employed a sharp-pointed instrument- called a | stylus |
| #3 | were society’s record keepers and served the needs of the temple, royal government and businesses. | Scribes |
| #4 | There were _____ different characters to memorize | 600 |
| #5 | Most scribes were ________ of government officials, priests and wealthy merchants | children |
| Timeline | ||
| #1 | Sumerians developed this in 3250 BCE | Cuneiform Writing |
| #2 | Sumerians first used this to help with tranportation in 3250 | Wheel |
| #3 | Hammurabi writes this in 1758 | Hammurabi's Code |
| #4 | First know civiliation of people in 3500 BCE. | Sumerians |
| #5 | Epic of ______ | Gilgamesh |
| Final Question | |