1. Ancient Mesopotamia Vocabulary

2. Fertile Crescent
A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

3. Silt
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks

4. Irrigation
A way of supplying water to an area of land

5. Surplus
More than needed

6. Divison of labor
Each worker specializes in a particular task or job

7. City-state
A city and all the countryside around it

8. Polytheism
The worship of many gods

9. Social hierarchy
Division of society by rank or class

10. Cuneiform
The world’s first system of writing

11. Hammurabi’s Code of Law
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life