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Civilization |
Societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of non farming elites, as well as merchant and manufacturing groups |
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Mesopotamia |
Literally "between the rivers" ; the civilizations that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris and Euphrates River valley |
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Sumerians |
People who migrated into Mesopotamia 4000 BCE semicolon created first civilization area into city states |
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Cuneiform |
A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets |
