2.1 Vocb Flashcards
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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
