Egypt And Ancient Mesopotamia

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Domesticate

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To convert something to domestic uses, tame

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Surplus

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An amount, more than needed

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Job specialization

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To pursue a specific job/work

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Fertile Crescent

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An area in the middle east

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Palestine

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A region in Western Asia

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Nomadic raiders

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Nomads are groups of people who are constantly moving and never settle in one place. Nomadic raiders take advantage of towns and villages and raid them

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Writing

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Began as a way of recording business deals and agricultural trading and inventory

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Aristocrats

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People who hold a higher rank and privilege

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Patriarchal

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Male dominated

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Near east and southwest Asia

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Used to describe parts of the Middle East

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Ancient times

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The beginning is considered 3500bc because it is when civilizations first began

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Region

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A non specific area

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Tigris and Euphrates

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A river that runs through Iraq Syria and turkey

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Sumer

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Worlds first civilization

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Cunieform

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Earliest known writing

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Scribes

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Record keepers

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Polytheism

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Believing in more than one God

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Ziggurats

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Temples with large pyramid like structures that house Sumerian gods

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Babylon

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One of the powerful civilizations

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Empire

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A group of people ruled by an emporer

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Decadent

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Especially culturally characterized by decadence

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Tower of Babel

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A ziggurat that builders hoped would reach to the heavens

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Israel

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Established 1000bc in the Middle East by Hebrews

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Mediterranean sea

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To the west of the middle east

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Judaism

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Religion

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Monotheism

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The belief that there is only one god

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Nile River

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A river that flows through east Asia

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Dynasties

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A sequence of rulers from the same family

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Tutankhamen

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Another name for king tut the best known pharoah

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Monarchies

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A type of government ruled by a royal family

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Democracies

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Type of government ruled by the people (voting)

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Dictatorship

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One person is in control of a nation with help from a military

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Papyrus

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A plant : reed plant that was pressed and dried to make a paper like material

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Rosetta Stone

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Carved with hieroglyphics

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Savanna

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A large land area in central and southeast Africa with grass lands and scattered trees

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Nile

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The longest river in the world

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Delta

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A landform that forms at the end of a river where the river flows into an ocean

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North africa

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The northern region of africa

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Sub Saharan Africa

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The area of Africa south of the Saharan desert