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Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Drought | A long period of dry weather |
| Famine | A wide spread lack of food resulting in hunger and starvation |
| Surplus | An extra supply of something such as food |
| Barter | Trade one kind of product for another without the use of money |
| Fertile Crescent | A fertile region in the Mid-East - it has the shape of a crescent moon |
| City-State | A self-governing city and lands around it |
| Ziggurat | A large temple built by the ancient Sumerians to worship their gods and goddesses |
| Cuneiform | A system of writing developed in ancient Sumer that used wedge-shaped symbols |
| MONOtheism | the belief in one god |
| POLYtheisim | The belief in many gods |
| Descendants | Off spring |
| Exodus | Going out in a large group |
| Covenant | An agreement or formal contract |
| Prophets | People claiming to have messages from god |