Chapter 3: Section 1 Flashcards
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Fertile Crescent a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf
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Fertile Crescent
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wider, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Irak
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Mesopotamia
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to supply water to
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Irrigate
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independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
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City-state
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trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
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Barter
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worship of many gods or deities
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Polytheism
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brick, pyramid–shaped Mesopotamian temple
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Ziggurat
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Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
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Cuneiform
