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Fertile Crescent | an area of rich farmland in the southweast Asia where the first civilizations began |
Silt | a mixture of fretilr soil and tiny rocks that can make land idears for farming |
Irrigation | a way of supplying water to an area of land |
Canal | a human-made waterway |
Surplus | more of something then is needed |
Divisiion of Labor | an arrangement is in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job |
Rural | a countryside area |
urban | a city area |
City-state | a political unit consting of a city and its surrounding countryside |
Empire | land with different territories and peoples under a single rule |
Polytheism | the worship of many gods |
Priest | a person who performs religious ceremonies |
Social Hierarchy | the division of society by rank or class |
Cuneiform | the world first system of writting developed in sumer |
Pictograph | a picture symbol |
Scribe | a writer |
Epics | long poems that tell stories of heroes |
Architecture | the science of building |
Ziggurat | a pyramid-shaped temple in sumer |
Hammurabi | a babylonian king who made a code of 282 laws |
monarch | a ruler of a kingdom or empire |
alphabet | a set of letters hat can be combined to form words |
chariot | a whelled, horse-drawn cart used in battled |
Neuchadnezzar | a famous Chaldea king who rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city |