Mesopotamia
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| Fertile Crescent - | Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a large arch of fertile farmland
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| Irrigation - | the supply of water to fields using man made systems
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| Canal - | human-made waterways that carry water to land
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| Surplus - | more than is needed (usually used to describe a supply of food)
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| City-State - | consists of a city and all the countryside around it
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| Empire - | group of different lands and people governed by one ruler;)
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| Polytheism - | the worship/belief in many Gods
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| Priest - | people who perform religious ceremonies
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| Social Hierarchy - | the division of a society by rank or class
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| Cuneiform - | the world’s first writing system. Created by the Sumerians.
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| Pictograph - | picture symbols that represent a word or object
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| Scribe - | a writer
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| Ziggurat - | a temple for worshipping Gods
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| Hammurabi's Code - | the first written laws! 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
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| Famine - | an extreme lack of crops or food causing widespread hunger
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| Monarch - | one ruler
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| Alphabet - | a set of letters that can be combined to form words
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