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Mesoptamia |
In ancient times the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Land between rivers. |
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Tigris River |
One of the two largest Rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf |
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Euphrates River |
One of the two largest Rivers in southwest Asia that flow from mountains in turkey to the Persian gulf. |
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Sumer |
An area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared. |
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irrigation |
a means of supplying land with water |
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levee |
a wall of earth built to prevent river from flooding its banks |
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silt |
fine particles of rock |
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city-state |
an early city that was like a small independent country with its own laws and government |
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sumer |
environment was low and flat with little rain |
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floods |
came from snow melted in the mountains where the rivers began |
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moats |
sumer constructed these to protect cities from attack |
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Reservoir |
purpose was to store water for later use |
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zagros |
mountains that lie between the waters of the Caspian sea and the Persian gulf |