1. Unit 7 Mesopotamia
Visual Vocabulary

2. Fertile Crescent
A large arc of fertile farmland surrounded by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

3. SILT
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks that’s good for growing crops

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

5. Surplus
Producing more than needed

6. Division of labor
Dividing complex work into specialized, repetitive tasks.

7. City-State
Consisting of a city and all the countryside around it

8. Empire
Land with different territories and people under single rule

9. Polytheism
The worship of many gods

10. Priest
People who perform religion ceremonies

11. Social Hierarchy
The division of society by rank and class

12. Cuneiform
The world’s first system of writing using wedge-shaped marks

13. Pictographs
Picture symbols

14. Scribe
Ancient writers who wrote books and kept records

15. Epics
Long poems that told the stories of heroes

16. Ziggurat
An ancient religious temple that resembles a pyramid

17. Monarch
The ruler of a kingdom or empire

18. Hammurabi’s Code
Was the set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life