having to do with the countryside

a unit of soldiers mounted on horses

Large, independently governed city

a ruler of a kingdom or empire

a large arc of rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

having to do with the city

A mixture of rich soil and small rocks

founder of the Persian Empire

Simple, less advanced

the city of Babylon's greatest monarch

A distinct group of people with a common culture and interests

the earliest known written collection of laws, comprising 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside

Persian emperor who organized and expanded the empire

an organized group of people (society) that live in an area and work to improve their way of life

a Uruk king who became a legend in Sumerian literature

A way of supplying water to an area of land

A series of wars between the Persia and Greece beginning in 490 BC.

A means of survival

A wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart

Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

T-shaped menhirs were found here

Persian emperor who led the second invasion of Greece in 480 BC

human-made waterways

Akkadian emperor who defended Sumer and built the world's first empire

land with different territories and peoples under a single rule

more of something than is needed

"land between the rivers"

the worship of many gods

an arrangement in which people specialize in specific tasks

A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.

people who performed religious ceremonies

Form Mesopotamia

City-states of Sumer

the division of society by rank or class

the world's first system of writing

Was what the Sumerian economy was based primarily on

a picture symbols

what was the main building material for the sumerian city-states?

writer or record keeper

A religious building

long poems that tell the stories of heroes

Attended school in Sumer

the science of building

Dominated the Sumerian society

A pyramid-shaped temple tower

Were what the Sumerian number system was based on