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mesopotamia
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| silt | a mixture of dirt and tiny rocks |
| fertile crescent | place by the Euphrates river and the Tigris river that has fertile soil |
| Mesopotamia | the land between the rivers |
| diffusion | the spread of ideas to one region to the other |
| Ziggurat | a pyramid shaped temple in Sumer |
| surplus | having more than what you need |
| urban | a city area |
| canal | a man made waterway |
| pictograph | a picture symbol |
| Hammurabi code | a set of 282 laws that people were expected to live by |
| scribe | a person who writes stuff down |
| prophet | a person who received a message from god and they tell other people |