| A | B |
|---|
| canal | human-made waterway |
| chariot | a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle |
| city-state | consisted of a city and all the countryside around it |
| cuneiform | world's first system of writing |
| division of labor | type of arrangement in which each worker specialized in a particular task or job |
| empire | land with different territories and peoples under a single rule |
| epic | long poem that tells the stories of heroes |
| Fertile Crescent | large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland |
| Gilgamesh | one of Uruk's kings that became a legendary figure in Sumerian Literature |
| Hammurabi's Code | a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily lfe |
| irrigation | way of supplying water to an area of land |
| monarch | ruler of a kingdom or empire |
| pictographs | picture symbols |
| polytheism | worship of many gods |
| rural | countryside |
| Sargon | sought to extend Akaddian territory, built a capitalAkkad, on the Euphrates |
| scribe | writer |
| silt | mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks |
| social hierarchy | division of society by rank of class |
| surplus | more than you need |
| urban | city |
| ziggurat | pyramid shaped temple tower |
