Mesopotamia
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| Fertile Cresent | An area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civiliation began
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| Silt | a mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming
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| Irrigation | A way of suppling water to an area of land
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| Canal | A human-made waterway
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| Surplus | more of something than is needed
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| Disvision of labor | An arragement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
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| Rural | A countryside area
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| Urban | A city area
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| City-State | A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
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| Empire | land with different territories and people under a single rule
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| Polytheism | The worship of many gods
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| Priest | A person who preforms religious ceremonies
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| Social Hierarchy | the division of societys by ranks of classes
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| Cuneiform | The worlds first system of writing:developed in sumer
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| Pictograph | A picture symbol
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| Scribe | A writer
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| Epics | Long poems that tell the stories of heroes
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| Architecture | The science of building
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| Ziggurant | Pyrimid-shaped temple in Sumer
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| Alphabet | A set of letters that can be combined to form words
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| Hammurabi | A babylonian king who made a code of 282 laws
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| Chariot | A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
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| Nebuchadnezzar | a famous Chaldean King who rebuilt babylon into a beautiful city
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| Monarch | a ruler of a kindom o empire
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