MesopatamiaArtisans - skilled workers that made useful products Babylon - City built by Hammurabi City-state - isolated cities that functioned like small countries Civilization - A complex society with cities, government, art, religion, class, and writing Cuneiform - First form of writing; uses wedged -shaped symbols Empire - A group of many different lands under one ruler Epic of Gilgamesh - The world's oldest known story; comes from Sumer Fertile Crescent - Area of fertile land in the Middle East Hammurabi - King of Babylonian Empire; famous for his Law Codes Hammurabi's Code - First organized and written code that all could see Irrigation - moving water to grow food Mesopotamia - means "Land between the Rivers" Sargon - King of the Akkadians; first to conquer all of Mesopotamia Scribes - Record Keepers; Those that could write Sumer - The earliest-known civilization in the Fertile Crescent Tigris and Euphrates Rivers - Rivers that surround Mesopotamia Ziggurat - means "mountain of god"
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