A large arc of rich, or fertile farm land
Land with different territories and people under single rule
The division on a society by rank and class
A pyramid shaped temple tower
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
Long Poems that tell stories of heroes
Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it.
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
The world’s first system of writing
The ruler of a kingdom
Belief in many gods
was the king of the city-state of Babylon. About 1800BC, He conquered the nearby city-states and created the kingdom of Babylonia
Laws engraved in stone and placed in a public location.
The ruling family was at what level of the class system
What level were the peasant farmers at.
the Sumerians had invented the earliest known form of writing called
The Sumerians employed a sharp-pointed instrument- called a
were society’s record keepers and served the needs of the temple, royal government and businesses.
There were _____ different characters to memorize
Most scribes were ________ of government officials, priests and wealthy merchants
Sumerians developed this in 3250 BCE
Sumerians first used this to help with tranportation in 3250
Hammurabi writes this in 1758
First know civiliation of people in 3500 BCE.
Epic of ______
