SS vocab Word Scramble
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silt | fine particles of fertile soil |
Fertile Crescent | is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land |
Polytheism | a belief in more than one god |
Myth | a traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people or something in the natural world |
irrigation | a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams |
caravan | a group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels; a group of traveling merchants and animals |
bazaar | a marketplace |
Mesopotamia | was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq |
city-state | a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory |
surplus | an amount that is left over after a need has been met |
empire | a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler |
tribute | payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender; payment to a ruler as a sign of submission or for protection |
province | a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire |
epic | a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero |
astronomer | a person who studies planets and stars |
prophet | a messenger sent by God to share God’s word with people |
monotheism | a belief in one God |
scribe | a person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper |
cuneiform | writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay |
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