first western civ class

Today was my first western civilization class. We had to do pg.34 questions 1 & 3

1.

• Fertile Crescent - Regions curved shape and the richness of its land
• Mesopotamia - Greek meaning “land between rivers” / region between the Tigris and Euphrates 
• City-state - A city and it’s surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit
•  Dynasty - Series of rulers from a single family
• Cultural Diffusion - Process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture or another
• Polytheism - Belief in more than one god

• Empire - An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority

• Hammurabi - Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Babylonian dynasty of the Amorite tribe reigning from c. 1792 BC to c. 1750 BC

3.

                   The three things the Sumerians suffered with were:

1. Unpredictable flooding  combined with periods of little to no rain
2. Natural resources of Sumer were limited, and building materials and other items were scarce 
3. No natural barrier for protection