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Question | Answer |
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government | the one who controls a city |
famine | a wide spread, a lack of food |
artifacts | an object that is very valuable |
Euphrates | a river in Asia that was important for farming |
nomads | people who have no homes |
floods | when water goes above land and into houses |
culture | a language that is spoken to that language speaker |
prehistoric | water that has not been cooled down and stays as the ice age |
drought | a long period of time without water |
game | used for hunting large and small animals |
custom | a tradition that is only practiced by that specific language speakers |
primary source | the original source |
archaeologists | people who dig up artifacts underground |
irrigate | to water |
Tigris | another type on river that is important to farming |
specialize | people that can do a certain thing or has a very good skill on that topic |
historians | people who write and record to learn about the past |
religion | a language that is spoken |
Mesopotamia | a land between two rivers |
furtile | good for planting food |
canals | boats or ships that are used before there are metals |
civilization | a large group of people that make a community |
city-states | a city with it's own leader and army |
cultivate | to prepare the land for farming |
domesticate | to tame, tame |
unpredictable | not predictable |
geography | the study of the earth |
silt | rocks, pebbles, minerals, from the bottom- created furtile land |