Ancient Mesopotamia Vocabulary

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Ancient Mesopotamia Vocabulary
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Fertile Crescent
A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland between
the Tigris Euphrates Rivers
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Silt
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
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Irrigation
A way of supplying water to an area of land
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Surplus
More than needed
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Divison of labor
Each worker specializes in a particular task or
job
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City-state
A city and all the countryside around it
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Polytheism
The worship of many gods
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Social hierarchy
Division of society by rank or class
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Cuneiform
The worlds first system of writing
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Hammurabis Code of Law
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every
part of daily life