Quizlet Set 2

Slide 1

• empire
• a group of people ruled by one leader
• Mesopotamia
• a region in the Fertile Crescent where the first civilization began and known as 'the land between two rivers
• city-state
• an independent governed region that is centered around a powerful city and has its own religion, language, laws, etc.
• ziggurat
• large temples built in the center of a city and usually used for religious purposes or celebrations
• fertile
• land that is capable of reproducing crops
• polytheism
• worshiping many gods
• Sumer
• first human civilization in world history
• civilization
• society that has language, religion, division of labor, and social hierarchy
• Hammurabi
• Babylonia king who codified a set of laws
• irrigation
• watering crops through man-made efforts such as ditches and canals
• surplus
• a excess amount of something (food)

Slide 2

• cuneiform
• ancient wedge-shaped form of writing used in Mesopotamia
• contribution
• something that is given to a society that helps them
• social class
• people having the same social, economic or educational status
• stylus
• shaped tool used to write cuneiform
• scribe
• one who can read and write
• hominid
• a primate that walks upright; only living members are humans
• hunters and gatherers
• people who moved around following wild animals to hunt and wild plants to eat
• Neolithic
• time when people stayed in one place to live, raise animals, and crops for food (New Stone Age); people where NOT nomadic
• Paleolithic
• time when people got their food by hunting and gathering it (Old Stone Age); people were nomadic
• prehistory
• the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word; before written history