| A | B |
|---|
| ziggurat | Sumerian temple, pyramid-shaped temple with spiral stairs around it, mountain of god, only priests could enter. Courts around it |
| artisan | skilled worker |
| Babylon | ruled by Hammurabi,most powerful city state of Babylonian empire |
| city-state | a city and surrounding farmland |
| culture | customs, food, religion of a group of people in one area |
| cuneiform | language made of wedge shapes |
| Euphrates | one of the twin rivers |
| Gilgamesh | famous priest-king of Uruk on the Euphrates river a city state |
| scribe | writers |
| Akkad | conquers from here took over Sumer's city states |
| iraq | present day Mesopotamia |
| around 3500 BC | when the Sumerians settled Mesopotamia |
| Sumerian City states | Sumer, Uruk, Akkad |
| lower, middle, upper class | class structure in Sumerian society |
| Farmers, unskilled workers, fishermen | lower class |
| artisans, government | middle class |
| kings, priests, merchants | upper class |
| were taken over by stronger conquerers and became part of the Akkadian empire & collapsed | fate of the Sumerian City States |
| Sumerians | created the oldest written records |
| Sargon I | king of Sumer and Akkad & all of Mesopotamia |
| empire | group of city states under one ruler |
