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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |