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Refers to the time period when people began using bronze, rather than copper and stone, to fashion tools and weapons.
Bronze Age (p. 21)
The city and the surrounding lands that functioned like an independent country
city-state (p. 31)
The spreading of cultural traits or ideas from one place to another
cultural diffusion (p. 31)
A system of wedge-shaped writing invented by the Sumerians
cuneiform (p. 20)
A god or goddess
deity
One of the oldest recorded stories from Sumer that mirrors other flood stories
Epic of Gilgamesh (p. 32)
The area of land that arcs from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea
Fertile Crescent (p. 29)
Social structure of a society, from highest to lowest
hierarchy
Literally translates into "the land between the rivers" between the Tigris and the Euphrates
Mesopotamia (p. 29)
Earliest form of writing that used pictures or symbols of the objects or what they represented
pictographs (p. 20)
The belief in more than one god
polytheistic (p. 31)
In early societies, the religious and political leader of a city
priest-king
The fertile soil of the Tigris and Euphrates
silt (p. 29)
A government in which rule is based on religious authority
theocracy
The two rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (p. 30)
A pyramid shaped monument in Sumer that was used as an administrative and religious center
ziggurat (p. 23)
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