| Term | Definition |
|---|
| farming technology | tools used to make and grow food |
| Fertile Crescent | an arc of land that stretched from the northern end of the Persian Gulf to the Nile River in Egypt. |
| Domesticate | To tame animals and wild plants so that they would have a steady supply of food |
| Mesopotamia | Greek meaning of the land between 2 rivers. Name for the Large Plain that stretches between the Tigris River and the east of the Euphrates River on the west |
| Plain | A large flat area |
| Delta | A marshy area where a river splits into smaller streams |
| Irrigate | To bring water to their fields |
| Dikes | A low earthen wall |
| Economy | A communities wealth and resources |
| Shekel | A copper, silver, or gold coin weighing 180 grains of barley |
| Barter system | goods were exchanged for other goods |
| Scribe | are people who sell their writing skills for a living, kept records and accounts on clay table |
| Stylus | a reed pen |
| Relief | is a carving on a stone surface |
| Chronology | list important event or developments over a period of time. They always list things from earliest to most recent |
| City-state | is in independent and does not belong to a country |
| Architecture | the art of designing buildings |
| Astronomer | is someone who studies the universe |
| Cuneiform | the name for a language that represents things as a picture |
| Pictograph | simple picture signs for words |
| Stela | and upright stone |
| Hammurabi's Code of Laws | the series of laws made by Hammurabi, a king of the group of people called Babylonians. It is very detailed and it is recorded on a Stela. |
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