Mesopotamia
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| Mesopotamia | The region where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow
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| Floodplain | the flat land bordering the banks
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| silt | the fine soil deposited by rivers
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| semiarid | climate with less than 10 inches of rain a year and hot summers
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| drought | a period when not enough rain and snow fall
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| Surplus | more supplies than they needed for themselves
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| Mouth | the part of a river that empties into a larger body of water
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| city-state | A community that includes a city and its nearby farmlands
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| ziggurat | a temple that is also the city hall ran by priests and serves as
storehouse for grain
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| polytheism | A belief in many gods and goddesses
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| irrigation | farmers’ system of canals for watering crop fields
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| king | the highest-ranked leader of a group of people
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| reed | the hollow stem of a tall grass
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| bronze | a mixture of copper and tin
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| pictographs | Such symbols known “picture writing.”
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| stylus | sharpened reed used to press markings into a clay tablet
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| scribes | The people who specialized in writing
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| cuneiform | wedge-shaped writing that used symbols made entirely of wedge shapes on clay tablets
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