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Mesopotamia
Ancient World
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History
7th Grade
10/17/2008

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Hammurabi
Definition
A powerful Babylonian king who provided law
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City-State
Definition
Cities and the surrounding territories
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Artisans
Definition
Skilled workers
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Ziggurat
Definition
Mesopotamian temple
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Cuneiform
Definition
Sumerian writing made up of wedge-shaped signs
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Scribe
Definition
Sumerian writer
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Priest-Kings
Definition
Sumerian governmental and religious leader
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Empire
Definition
Territories governed by a single ruler or nation
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Culture
Definition
Way of life
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Reform
Definition
Change that leads to improvement
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Reign
Definition
Period of power
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Gilgamesh
Definition
Oldest known story in the world written about him in 1700 BC
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Sargon I
Definition
Created the world’s first empire
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Mesopotamia
Definition
The land between the rivers
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Sumerian
Definition
Ancient people who lived in the geographic region of Sumer
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Civilization
Definition
Society with a developed knowledge of farming, trade, government, art, and science
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Tigris
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Most Sumerians lived near this river
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Euphrates
Definition
Basis of life for most Sumerians in fertile crescent
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Historian
Definition
An expert who studies and records the past
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Geographer
Definition
An expert who studies and creates maps of Earth’s natural and human-made features
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Artifact
Definition
Product of human skill
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Colonies
Definition
Permanent settlements
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Social Justice
Definition
Fair treatment of all people in a society
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Anthropologist
Definition
People who study human beings
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Archaeologist
Definition
People who study ruins and artifacts
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Specializations
Definition
Development of occupations
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Kitchen Midden
Definition
A trash heap containing bones, shells, and stone tools
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Monotheism
Definition
Belief in one god
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Polytheism
Definition
Belief in many gods
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Economics
Definition
The study of how people earn a living
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Geography
Definition
The study of location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region
Term
Technology
Definition
A people’s practical and applied arts and sciences by which they make the things they need and want
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Time Lines
Definition
A graphic representation of the passage of time on a line
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Provinces
Definition
Political districts
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Smelting
Definition
Heating iron metals to remove impurities
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Fertile Crescent
Definition
A crescent-shaped area of fertile land in the Middle East that extends from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf
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