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The Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Canal | An artificial (man-made) waterway for boats or for irrigation |
| Civilization | The most advanced stage of human development and orginization |
| Code | A collection of orginized laws |
| Fertile Crescent | Fertile land in the middle east in a semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
| Flooding | Covering or filled with water |
| Indus River Valley | Major river valley in Asia, in what is today Pakistan |
| Irrigation | Supplying witer water by man-made methods |
| Job specialization | Membors of a community the jobs that are most suited for |
| Law | A rule of conduct enforced by the goverment |
| Mesopotamia | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
| Polythemism | A belief in many gods |
| Scribes | A class of scholars and copiers who were the basis of the goverment, the army and the proesthood |
| Temple | A building for worship |