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Fertile Crescent

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A large arch of rich, or fertile, farming land

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Silt

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A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks

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Irrigation

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A way of supplying water to an area of land

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Canals

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Human-made waterways

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Surplus

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More than needed, a stock

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Division Of Labor

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The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job

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Rural

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Countryside

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Urban

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City

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City-State

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Consists of a city and all the countryside around it

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Gilgamesh

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One of Uruk’s king’s

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Sargon

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The Akkadian emporor

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Empire

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Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule

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Polytheism

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The worship of many gods

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Priests

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People who performed religous ceremonies

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Social Hierarchy

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The division of society by rank or class

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Cuneiform

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The world’s first system of writing

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Pictographs

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Picture Symbols

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Scribe

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Writer

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Epics

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Long poems that tell stories of heroes

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Architecture

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The science of building

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Ziggurat

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A pyramid-shaped temple tower

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Monarch

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A ruler of a kingdom

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Hammurabi’s Code

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A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

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Chariot

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A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle

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Nebuchadnezzar

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The most famous Chaldean king

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Alphabet

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A set of letters that can be combined to form words