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FERTILE CRESENT
fertile cressent
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| silt | when soil is silted by water |
| drought | a place with a long peiriod without water |
| levee | to help water not to overflow |
| irrigation | to move water from place to place |
| migrate | to move to a new place to live |
| surplus | an amount of something |
| specialize | to consentrait on something |
| domesticate | be trained to work for humans |
| civilization | to settle in to a new spot to live |
| Era | a long distinct period of history |
| Agriculture | the science or practice for farming |
| cuneiform | a type of writing |
| scribe | a person who copies out documents |
| city-state | a wall to protect the people |
| ziggurat | a rectangular stepped peramid |
| polytheism | a belief or worship of many gods |
| empire | a extensive group of states or countries |
| code of law | a code of law is written collection of laws |
| aqueduct | an artifical channel for conveying |
| Judaism | a type of religion |
| covenant | a special agreement |
| Torah | the first five books in the Hebrew Bible |
| monotheism | The belief of one god |
| Ten commandments | Among the laws that God gave Moses |
| Dispora | scattering Jews away from their homeland |