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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fertile crescent | an area of wich rich farmland in southweastern Asia where the first civilizations. |
| silt | a mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming |
| irrigation | a way of supling water to an area of land |
| canal | a human-made water way |
| surplus | more of something than needed |
| divison of labor | an arrangment i wich each worker specializes in a particular task or job |
| rural | a countryside area |
| urban | a city area |
| city-side | a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding country side |
| empire | land with diffrences territories and peoples under a singale rule |
| polythism | the worships of many gods |
| priest | aperson who peforms religious ceremonies |
| social hierarchy | the divison of society by rank of class |
| cuneiform | the worlds first system of writtinhg develoment in summer |
| pictograph | a picture symbol |
| scribe | a writer |
| epics | long poems that tell the stories of heroes |
| architecture | the science of bulding |
| ziggurat | a pyramid-shaped temple in summer |
| alphabet | a set of letters that can be combined to form words |
| Hammurabi | a Babylonian king who made a code of 282laws |
| monarch | a ruler of a kindom or ampire |
| chariot | a wheeled horse drawn cart used in battel |
| Nebuchadnezzar | a famous chaldean king who rebuilt babylone into a butful city |