A payment the government collects from people to pay government expenses

A forced payment from a conquered people.

wheel, cart, chariot, sailboat, plow, potter's wheel, bronze, place-value system of numbers, system based on 60, 12 month calendar, multiplication & division

Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Great Pyramids, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Temple of Artemis, Colossus of Rhodes, Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria

Most Sumerian women cared for their children and ran their household.

The land is shaped like a crescent and very fertile due to the water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

50,000 soldiers, iron weapons, brutal to enemies and included infantry, cavalry and charioteers

They recorded business transactions, literature, history and there were only a few of them

A large temple that was considered the god's home in Sumerian city-states.

merchants, farmers, fishers and artisans.

It included the first civilization and was the beginning of organized human society.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth