lesson 4 ss

Laws

Enforceable rules of conduct in a society

Cuneiform

A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.

Fertile Crescent

A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

Yellow River (Huang He)

A river that runs through northern China, "River of Sorrow" becuase of frequent flooding.

Hieroglyphics

An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

Intensification

Intensification

centralized authority

an organization structure in which decision-making authority is maintained at the top level of management

Mesopotamia/Sumer

the civilization that developed around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers around 3500 BC/BCE