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mesopotamia |
in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers |
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euphrates river |
one of the two largest rivers in southwest Asia the flow from mountains in the Turkey to the Persian Gulf |
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irrigation |
A means supplying land with water |
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silt |
fine particles of rock |
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tigris river |
one of the two largest river in the Southwest Asia that flows from the mountains to Turkey to the Persian Gulf |
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sumer |
an area in the southern Mesoptamia where cities first appeared |
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levee |
a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding the banks |
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city state |
an early city that was like a small,independent country with it's own laws and government |
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floods |
came from snow melted in the mountains where the river 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 |
