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region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

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Mesopotamia

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region of the Middle East in which civilizations first arose

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Fertile Crescent

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site of the world’s first civilization, located in southeastern Mesopotamia

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Sumer

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Mesopotamian narrative poem that was first told in Sumer

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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system of ranking groups

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Hierarchy

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in ancient Mesopotamia, a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city’s chief god or goddess

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Ziggurat

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in the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks

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Cuneiform