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Social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fertil crescent | an area of ritch farmland in soulth aisa whaerethe first cilvilzation |
| silt | a mixter of firtle soil and tiny rocks |
| irrigation | a way of suplyinging watter to an area of land |
| canal | a human made of watterway |
| surplus | more of somthing than is needed |
| division of labeor | an arrangment in which each worker specializezes in a particular task or job |
| rural | a contryside area |
| urban | a city area |
| city state | a popilation unit consising of a city and its suranding countryside |
| empire | land with diffrent territorys and peoples under a singel rule |
| polythiesm | th worship of many gods |
| priest | a person who peforms religiuos ceremonies |
| social hierarchy | the division of socieety by rank class |
| cuneiform | the worlds first systm of writting; deveopment in sumer |
| piictograph | a picter of symbole |
| scribe | a writter |
| epics | long pomes that tell the stories of heroes |
| architecture | the sienc of building |
| ziggurat | a primaid shapeed temple in sumer |
| alphabet | a set of letters that can be comdind to form words |
| Hammurabi | a babylonianking who made a code of 282 laws |
| monarch | a ruler of a kingdom or mpire |
| chario | a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle |
| Nebuchadnezzar | a famous Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city |
| cunieform | the world's first system of writing;developed in Sumer |