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The first civilizations started in | 3500 B.C. |
Civilization | A group of people with an organized and complex society within a culture |
Plain | Area of flat land |
Mesopotamia | Land between the rivers |
In the fertile crescent there is not enough _____ to grow plants | Rain |
In 5000 B.C. farmers living in the northern part of the fertile crescent... | Began moving south for fertile land |
Farmers moved from a plateau to | Mesopotamia |
Irrigation | Trenches and ditches brought water from rivers to fields |
Mesopotamians built | huts using reed |
Made bricks from | Mud and straw |
Most worked as farmers of herders of | Goats, sheep, and cattle |
Mesopotamians used_____ to transport goods | Rivers |
Production of surpluses food was a | great rise in civilization |
Farming improves | population rises |
Soon people arrived in 2 parts of the fertile crescent | Northern and western |
By 3500 B.C. several villages became city-states | Uruk, Kish, Lagash, Nippur, and Ur |
City-state | A city with its individual unit, complete with its own goverment |
Region | An area with common physical features |
Sargon | Akkadian ruler who conquered many city-states |
Cuneiform | form of writing |
Gilgamesh | literature figure |
Ur-Nammu | Farming, Businesses, literature, and arts |
Sumerians developed written systems that helped us with... | Business dealings, create works of literature, and to copy medical text |
Fertile | Rich soil |