Western Civ blog 2

A Fertile Crescent is a curved shape of land with rich farming land. Mesopotamia is a Greek word that mean land between rivers. A city-state is a city and surrounding land. A dynasty is a series of rulers from a single family. Cultural diffusion is the process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another culture. Polytheism is when you believe in more than one. An empire brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of wonder. Hammurabi is a noted lawgiver. The Sumerians had many environmental challenges, some of them being unpredictable flooding, combined with little to no rain. The land could often times turn to a desert. The Sumerians also had limited natural resources.