| A | B |
|---|
| Sumer | Earliest known civilzation |
| Mesopotamia | means land between two rivers |
| Tigris & Euphrates | What two rivers was Mesopotamia between |
| Fertile Crescent | area of good farmland in Mesopotamia |
| City-States | Sumerians lived in independent |
| Upper Class | Priest, King, Merchants, lived in center of city |
| Middle Class | Government officias, artisans, shopkeepers, outside of at upper |
| Lower Class | Farmers, unskilled laborers, fisherman, outside walls |
| Three classes | City state had how many classes |
| ziggurat | Mountain of god, Hill of heaven, center.Only priest could enter |
| courts | around the Ziggurat |
| gods | all forces of nature, over 3000 |
| humans | servants of the gods |
| Priest | powerful, controlled schools, tablet houses |
| scribes | wrote with wedge shapes |
| cuneiform | wedge shapes of first language |
| Sumerians | created first written language |
| Akkadian Empire | World's first empire |
| Sargon | 1st ruler of Akkadian Empire |
| Gilgamesh of Uruk and Enkidu | kings,oldest story told, lived like gods |
| Priests and Kings | choesn by assemby during time of Lunar 1 |
| Kingship | passed down from parents to child |
