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unit 2 terms
Term | Definition |
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Canal | An artificial (man -made) waterway for boats or for irrigation. |
Temple | a building for worship |
Polytheism | A belief in many gods |
Scribes | A class of scholars and copiers who were the basis of the government,the army and the priesthood |
Law | A rule conduct (behavior)enforced by the government |
Mesopotamia | The land between the tigris and euphrates rivers |
Irrigation | Supplying with water by man-made methods |
Job specialization | Members of a community perform the jobs that they are most suited for |
Flooding | covering or filled with water |
Indus river valley | Major river valley in Asia,in what is today pakistan |
Code | A collection of organized laws |
Fertile crescent | fertile land in the middle east in a semicircle from the nile to the tigris and euphrates rivers |
Canal | An artifical (man-made)waterway for boats or for irrigation |
civilization | the most advanced stage of human development and organization |
Indus River Valley | Major river valley in Asia, in what is today Pakistan |