Ch. 3 VOCABULARY

Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it

Human-made waterways

Picture symbols that resembled objects, like a tree or an animal

A countryside area

Type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job

A ruler of a kingdom or empire

An area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the 1st civilizations began.

A land with different territories and peoples under a single rule

The science of building

The division of society by rank or class

A city area

The world's FIRST system of writing

A way of supplying water to an area of land.

A set of letters that can be combined to form words.

The worship of many gods

A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle.

A pyramid-shaped temple tower

People who performed religious ceremonies

A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks

A writer

Earliest known set of written laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life in Babylon

Long poems that tell the stories of heroes.