| A | B |
|---|
| polytheism | belief in many gods |
| city-state | a city and its surrounding lands |
| code of law | written rules for people to obey |
| cuneiform | first writing system |
| irrigation | watering dry land with ditches, pipes, or streams |
| silt | fertile soil carried by rivers and deposited on nearby lands |
| Hanging Gardens builder | Nebuchadnezzar |
| Most important Israeli city | Jerusalem |
| Why did the Sumerians develop writing? | keep business records |
| "Land between the rivers" | Mesopotamia |
| What do Sumerian farmers depend on for growing crops? | irrigation canals |
| world's first empire was established by... | Sargon |
| Most powerful people in Sumerian society | priests |
| Code of Hammurabi | laws for the Babylonian Empire |
