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Review Vocab

Review Vocab. Mesopotamia Chapter 3. What is the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job?. Division of Labor . What is more than you need called? It translates to “over needed.”. Surplus . What is a human-made waterway called?. Canal .

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Review Vocab

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  1. Review Vocab Mesopotamia Chapter 3

  2. What is the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job?

  3. Division of Labor

  4. What is more than you need called? It translates to “over needed.”

  5. Surplus

  6. What is a human-made waterway called?

  7. Canal

  8. What is a way of supplying water to an area of land?

  9. Irrigation

  10. What is a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks called?

  11. Silt

  12. What a large arc of rich, fertile, or lush farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began?

  13. Fertile Crescent

  14. What is division of society by rank or class called?

  15. Social Hierarchy

  16. Who are people who perform religious ceremonies called?

  17. Priests

  18. What is the worship of many gods called? It translates to “belief in many gods.”

  19. Polytheism

  20. What is the land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler called?

  21. Empires

  22. What is a political unit consisting of a city and all, surrounding countryside around it?

  23. City-State

  24. What does it mean to becity-like called?

  25. Urban

  26. What does it mean to be country-like called?

  27. Rural

  28. What is pyramid-shaped triangle tower in Sumer called?

  29. Ziggurat

  30. What is the science of structural design, planning, design, and building called?

  31. Architecture

  32. What are long poems that tell stories of heroes called?

  33. Epics

  34. What do you call someone who writes? It translates “to write.”

  35. Scribe

  36. What do you call picture symbols? It translates to “picture writings.”

  37. Pictographs

  38. What is the name of the world’s first writing system developed in Sumer?

  39. Cuneiform Writing

  40. What do you call a writing utensil or tool?

  41. Stylus

  42. What do you call a set of letters that can be combined to form words?

  43. Alphabet

  44. What is a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle called?

  45. Chariot

  46. What is the firs written set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life called? It was written by a famous king and the laws were posted on an obelisk. It is the earliest known collection of written laws.

  47. Hammurabi’s Code of Laws

  48. What is a ruler of a kingdom or empire called? It translates to “one king.”

  49. Monarch

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