Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent

Sumerians played stringed instruments called

_______is a way of supplying water to an area of land. Sumerians used ______ to water crops

___________are human–made the waterways

Priests were people who

The ______________developed the first advanced society.

City- state

a large arc of rich, or fertile farmland

A scribe is

Pictographs were

Social hierarchy

Polytheism is a religion that worships

The valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were the site of the world’s

Most people in Sumer were farmers, they lived mainly in the rural area which means

A ziggurat is a

___________ is a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks, to the land.

A type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job is called a

Cuneiform is

An epic is