| A | B |
| Rural | countryside |
| Urban | city |
| City state | consisted of a city and all the country side around it |
| Gilgamesh | one of Uruk’s kings |
| Sargon | one of akkad’s kings |
| Empire | land with different territories |
| Polytheism | the worship of many gods |
| Priest | people who performed religious ceremonies |
| Social hierarchy | the division of society by rank or class |
| Cuneiform | the world’s first form of writing |
| Pictographs | picture symbols |
| Scribe | writer |
| Epics | long poems that tell the stories of heroes |
| Architecture | the science of building |
| Ziggurat | a pyramid shaped temple tower |