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land between rivers

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Fertile Crescent   Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a large arch of fertile farmland  
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Irrigation   a way of supplying water to an area of land  
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Canal   human-made waterways that carry water to land  
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Surplus   more than is needed (usually used to describe a supply of food)  
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City-State   consists of a city and all the countryside around it  
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Empire   land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler  
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Polytheism   the worship of many Gods  
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Priest   people who perform religious ceremonies  
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Social Hierarchy   the division of a society by rank or class  
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Cuneiform   the world’s first writing system. Created by the Sumerians  
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Pictograph   picture symbols that represent a word or object  
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Scribe   a writer  
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Ziggurat   a temple for worshipping Gods  
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Hammurabi's Code   the first written laws! 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life  
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Monarch   one ruler  
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Alphabet   a set of letters that can be combined to form words  
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