Silt - a fine soil carried in water of rivers.
Irrigation - the bringing of water to crop fields by means of canal ditches.
City-State - a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
Dynasty - a series of rulers from a single family
Cultural Diffusion - the process of an new idea or product being spread from one culture to another
Polytheism - the belief in many gods
empire - brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler
Map question 1
The Tigris and Euphrates River valley are found in Mesopotamia.
Map question 2
This valley runs right through Mesopotamia.
Video 1 question
Language was created because the Sumerian's needed to keep record of what happened each year.
Video 2 questions
1. The symbols in the cuneiform represent wedge shapes.
2. The wrote on clay. They find clay and make them into a tablet by flattening them . Then they use a stylus that they cut from reaves to write. then they place the clay in the sun so it can harden.
3. they only drew on clay and the clay became tablets.
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