| A | B |
|---|
| rural | countryside |
| urban | city |
| city-state | consisted of a city and all the contryside around it |
| empire | land with different territories and peoples under a single rule |
| polytheism | the worship of many gods |
| priests | people who performed religous ceremonies |
| social heirarchy | the division of society by rank or class |
| kings | believed by the Sumerians to be chosen by the gods |
| Sumer | the world's first civilization |
| Akkadian | the world's first empire |
| wall | built to protect a city-state |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | the first written literature |
