| A | B |
|---|
| "BC" | Before Christ |
| "AD" | Anno Domini |
| polytheism | belief in many gods |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| Cuneiform | world's first writing system |
| Scribe | person with the ability to read and write |
| HunterGatherers | people who wonder around in search of food |
| agriculture | farming |
| silt | a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks |
| Fertile Crescent | a large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland |
| irrigation | a way of supplying water to an area of land |
| canals | human-made waterways to bring water to the fields |
| surplus | more than needed, extra |
| paleolithic | old stone |
| neolithic | new stone |
| city-state | a city and all the countryside around it |
| domesticate | to change plants and animals to make them more useful to humans |
| DivisionOfLabor | an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job |
| SocialHierachy | the division of society by rank or class |
| Ziggurat | pyramid-shaped temple |
| Mesopotamia | Land between the rivers |
