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Sumer Vocab
Sumer Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Silt | earthly matter carried by moving or running water and deposited as soil |
| Levees | an earth wall that prevents the flooding of a river |
| Irrigation | method of supplying the land with water by artifical means, such as ditches, channels, and canals |
| Sumer | the land in souther Mesopotamia where the first civilization arose; now part of Iraq |
| Flood plain | a flat area of land which borders on a river and is made of soil deposited by floods |
| Surplus | a quatity or amount of goods over and above what is needed to stay alive |
| Civilization | a condition of life in which a people have a surplus of goods, a division of labor, and cities |
| Specialist | a person who does one particular job |
| Division of Labor | a separation of workers into different jobs so that more and better goods can be produced |