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History Ch. 4
History Ch. 4 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Mesopotamia | in ancient times, the geographic area between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers |
Sumer | an area in the southern part of Mesopotamia where cities first appeared |
city-states | an early city that was like a small, independent counrty with its own laws and government |
irrigation system | a means of supplying land with water |
Sumerians | ancient people who lived in the geographic region of Sumer |
levee | a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks |
silt | fine particles of rock |
canal | ditches built for irrigation |
natural barrier or boundary | a land form or body of water that creates a border between two places Example: Ohio River |
stele | slab of stone inscribed with pictures of major events |
shadoof | rod with a bucket on one side and a weight on the other used to raise water from rivers and irrigate fields |