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Reid- First Civilization, Unit 1, Ch. 2

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empire   a group of many different lands under one ruler  
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mud brick   Sumerian building material  
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scribe   record keeepers who often went on to become government officials  
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nomad   people who regularly move from place to place  
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ziggurat   grand temple with a shrine at the top, like a giant square wedding cake  
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irrigation   building dams, channels, walls and ditches to bring water to crops  
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Mesopotamia   land between 2 rivers, the cradle of civilizations  
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artisans   skilled workers who made metal products of cloth or pottery  
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historian   people who study and write about the human past  
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cuneiform   Sumerian writing system  
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bronze   a mixture of copper and tin  
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archaelogists   study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past  
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Nebuchadnezzar   Chaldean king who built the hanging gardens  
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Hammurabi   created a written law code  
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Assyrians   warlike group  
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Sargon   King of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia  
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