| A | B |
|---|
| city-state | Cities and the surrounding territories |
| ziggurat | mountain of god - a temple |
| cuneiform | Sumerian writing made up of wedge-shaped sighs |
| scribe | writer |
| Gilgamesh | a famous priest-king around 1700 BCE |
| rich boys | went to school in the table house |
| poor boys | learned a trade or worked in fields |
| Persian Gulf | where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers end |
| Sargon I | created the world's first empire around 2300 BCE |
| Hammurabi | king of Babylon about 1800 BCE |
| Sumarian civilization | the earliest known on Earth |
| levees | raised areas of soil used for irrigation |
| Ur | on of the great cities of Sumer |
