HW#7

Question 1;
Fertile Crescent: The regions curved shape and richness of the land.
Silt: When a flood leaves a thick bed of mud.
Irrigation: To dig ditches that carry river water to there fields which allowed a surplus of crops.
City-State: When each city and surrounding land is controlled.
Dynasty: A series of rulers from a single family.
Cultural Diffusion: When a new idea or product is spread from one culture to another.
Polytheism: To believe in many gods.
Empire: When several people, nations, and states are under control of one ruler.
Hammurabi: When the Babylonian Empire reaches its peak during the reign of Hammurabi

Question 2;
1)There was no transportation & the solution was they created the sail and wheel
2)No way of communicating & the solution was making up writing
3)No tools for planting & the solution was that they created the plow

Question 3;
The advantage of living in a sumerian's city is that there is everything you need to survive and you only have one ruler. City's today have everything you need to survive, but there are too many rulers of the modern city today that things can get chaotic.

Video 1;
To keep record of many things like how many crops a person grew that year, how many animals they had, How much of everything was given to the gods.

Video 2;
1)The symbols in Cuneiform represent words .
2)The way they wrote was on plates of clay that made the clay in to plates like pancakes and wrote with a stylus, then after done writing they let the clay dry in the sun.
3)They drew on clay & walls.