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Fertile Crescent
Chapter 2 Section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| scribe | a professional writer |
| city-state | a city with its own traditions and its own government and laws; both a city and a separate independent state |
| polytheism | belief in many gods |
| myth | a traditional story; in some cultures, a legend that explains people's beliefs |
| Sumer | the site of the earliest known civilization; located in Mesopotamia, in present-day southern Iraq; later become Babylonia |
| Mesopotamia | an ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Southwest Asia |
| Fertile Crescent | a region in Southwest Asia; site of the world's first civilization |
| Tigris River | the northern river in Iraq and Turkey |
| Euphrates River | the southern river flowing from Turkey through Syria and Iraq |