Mesopotamia Quiz tomorrow!

Today in class, Mr. Schick informed and went over the quiz tommorow on Mesopotamia. The teacher had a booklet filled with topics, headings and questions that will be on the quiz. Some of these headings and question-based notes are: city-states-which is a form of government that provides a structure for the people in it, and the Ziggurat, which was a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surrounded by a temple, in ancient Mesopotamia. Cuneiform was one of the earliest systems of writing, that was invented by the Sumerians. Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god, and a dynasty, which is a line of hereditary rulers of a country. An empire is an extensive group of states or countries under one single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. Cultural diffusion is the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point. The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East where agricultural and early human civilizations such as Sumer flourished. Irrigation is the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels. Silt is what is known as fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor. Wheat was one of the world's top food crops and one of the first to be cultivated. Wheat can also be easily grown, handled and stored and keeps so well that it can be shipped anywhere and stored for years. The last piece of notes for the quiz is that there are 282 codes in the law of Hammurabi. That is mostly everything we covered today in class, for preparing for the quiz.