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defining words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| pottery | a job for designing dishes or bottles with red clay |
| silt | sand and clay particles |
| irrigation | application of water to soil or land to help grow crops |
| surplus | profit that remains after all needs, uses and expenses |
| city state | sovereign country that consists of a single city |
| polytheism | worship of multiple distinct deities |
| ziggurat | a massive stepped pyramid structure with receding terraces |
| Cuneiform | the oldest known writing system |
| Scribe | a person who serves as a professional copyist |
| Epic | awesome |
| empire | political unit in which a single sovereign authority or government exercises control over a vast and diverse territory |