The first civilizations vocabulary
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| Jericho | It's a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank. Oldest Neolithic community in the West Bank between Israel and Jordan.
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| Catal Huyuk | Early Neolithic community in present-day Turkey.
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| Historian | People who study and write about the human past.
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| Archaeologist | Are people that hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been.
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| Artifact | Weapons, tools, and other things made by humans. Archaeologists dig up and study these items.
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| Fossil | Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock.
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| Anthropologist | Are people that focus on human society.
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| Nomad | People that are always on the move (For example: Paleolithic people)
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| Technology | Tools and methods to help humans perform tasks.
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| Domesticate | Tame animals and plants for human use.
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| Specialization | The development of different kinds of jobs.
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| Tigris River | River in southeastern Turkey and Iraq that merges with the Euphrates River.
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| Euphrates River | River in southwestern Asia that flows through Syria and Iraq and joins the Tigris River near the Persian Gulf.
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| Mesopotamia | Early center of civilization, in the area of modern Iraq and eastern Syria between the Tigris River and Euphrates River.
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| Sumer | Located in southern Mesopotamia.
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| Babylon | Once the world's largest and richest city, on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Mesopotamia.
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| Sargon | The kind of the Akkadians, In about 2340 B.C. he conquered all of Mesopotamia.
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| Hammurabi | A babylonian king. He began conquering cities to the north and south and created the Babylonian Empire.
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| Civilization | Complex societies.
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| Irrigation | Farmers built water walls, waterways, and ditches to bring water to their fields. Irrigation allowed farmers to grow plenty of food and support a large population.
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| City-state | Independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages.
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| Artisans | Skilled workers who made metal products.
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| Cuneiform | It was writing created by the people in Sumer. It consists of hundreds of wedge-shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets with a sharp-ended reed.
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| Scribe | Record keepers.
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| Empire | A group of many different lands under one ruler.
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| Assyria | Ancient country in Asia that included the Tigris River valley in Mesopotamia.
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| Persia Gulf | An arm of the Arabian Sea in southwestern Asia, between the Arabian Peninsula on the southwest and Iran on the northeast.
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| Nineveh | Ancient capital of Assyria.
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| Hanging Gardens | A marvel as some people call it, visible from any point in Babylon, was an immense staircase of greenery: the Hanging Gardens at the King's place.
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| Nebuchadnezzar | The Chaldeans wanted to build an empire. Led by Nebuchadnezzar, they controlled all of Mesopotamia from 605 B.C to 562 B.C.
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| Provinces | Political districts.
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| Caravan | Groups of traveling merchants.
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| Astronomer | People who study the heavenly bodies- mapped the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon.
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