| A | B |
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| Tigris and Euphrates | 2 great rivers that define Mesopotamia |
| City-states | the basic unit of Sumerian civilization |
| Ziggurats | massive stepped towers with temples on top |
| theocracy | government ruled by religion |
| Priests and priestesses | people with high religious power |
| Sumerian economy | based on farming |
| Sumerian society | consisted of three major groups: nobles, commoners and slaves |
| Akkadians | neighbors of the Sumerians |
| Sargon | a powerful Akkadian king; creator of the first empire in human history |
| Hammurabi | king of Babylon |
| The Code of Hammurabi | a set of laws created by Hammurabi. |
| patriarchal | a society that is dominated by men |
| Polytheistic | to have many gods in a single religion |
| Cuneiform | Sumarian writing system; a wedge-shaped system of writing used by the Sumerians |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | a famous piece of Mesopotamian literature - epic poem about the king Gilgamesh |
| Scribes | judges and teaches and could read and write |
| Fertile Crescent | the arc of rich soil between the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf |
| Akkadians | neighbors of Sumerians |
| Mesopetamia | Greek for "land between the rivers" |
| Ziggurats | massive stepped towers with temples on top |
| theocracy | government ruled by religion |
| Saragon | leader of the Akkadians; the creator of the first empire in human history |
| City-states | basic unit of Sumerian civilization |
| elements of civilization | cities, government, art religion, social structure, writing |
| Sumerians | creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization |
| Ur and Uruk | Mesopotamian city states |
| 3 groups of Sumerian society | nobles, commoners, slaves |
| Hammurabi | king of Babylon |
| scribes | judges and teachers who could read and write |
| Sumerians developed | wagon wheel; math system based on 60; geometric system for measuring fields |
| empire | a large political unit or state, usually under a single leader, that controls many people or territories |
| Mesopotamia | one of the first civilizations, began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. |
| Babylon | a city state south of Akkad where Hammurabi came to power |
| Urek | Independent city states in Sumeria |
