Cuneiform, the Sumerian system of writing, which used symbols to represent basic parts of worlds., Pictographs, picture symbols that represented objects such as trees or animals, Scribe, writer, Epics, long poems that tell the story of a hero, Architecture, the science of building, Ziggurat, a pyramid-shaped temple tower, Rural, having to do with the countryside., Urban, having to do with the city., City-state, a political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside., Sargon, the Akkadian king who defeated Sumer and built the world’s first empire., Empire, land with different territories and peoples under a single rule., Polytheism, the worship of many gods, Priests, people who performed religious ceremonies, Social hierarchy:, a division of society by rank or class, Monarch, a ruler of a kingdom or empire, Hammurabi’s Code, the earliest known written collection of laws, comprising 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of life, Chariot, a wheeled, horse-drawn battle car, Fertile Crescent, a large arc of rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea., Silt:, a mix of rich soil and small rocks., Irrigation, a way of supplying water to an area of land., Canals:, Human-made waterways., Surplus, more of something than is needed., Division of Labor, an arrangement in which people specialize in specific tasks..

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