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Mesopotamia

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What is farming of crops and raising of animals

Agriculture

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What is irrigation?

Moving fresh water to be used for farming or drinking

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An area in the Middle East where agriculture first developed 7,000 years ago

Fertile Crescent

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What is an area with soil that is good for agriculture?

Fertile

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A society with cities, government, different jobs, and different levels of power (King, Warrior, Farmer)

Civilization

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What are natural resources? (definition, not an example)

materials found in nature that are used by living

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What is a flat area of fertile land surrounding a river

River Valley

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What is a drought?

A long period of time with little precipitation (rain)

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What is the the first form of writing developed in Mesopotamia

Cuneiform

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What is a ranking of people into higher or lower positions of respect and power

Social Hiearchy

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What is surplus?

Having more of something than you need to survive

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What is polytheism?

Belief in more than one god

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Were Mesopotamians polytheistic or monotheistic?

polytheistic

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What is a pyramid shaped temple found in Mesopotamian cities?

Ziggurat

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What is a scribe?

A person in Mesopotamia whose job it was to write and record things

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What is an empire?

A bunch of cities in Mesopotamia conquered and ruled by an emperor (powerful king)

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