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Nile River
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The Nile is an "international" river as its water resources are shared by eleven countries. Nile is the primary water resource and life artery for Egypt and Sudan
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Fertile Crescent
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the region in the Middle East where the civilizations of the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin began.
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Mesopotamia
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"[land] between rivers". term Mesopotamia was more generally applied to all the lands between the Euphrates and the Tigris
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Hebrews
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Hebrews are peoples descended from Shem, one of Noah's sons, through Eber, the eponymous ancestor, and Abraham
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Pharaoh
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is a title used in many modern discussions of the rulers of all Ancient Egyptian dynasties
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Cultural diffusion
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spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages et
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Ziggurat
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were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
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Heirarchy
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a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
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Cuneiform
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is one of the earliest known systems of writing,[1] distinguished by its "wedge-shaped" marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus
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Scribe
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someone who writes down what someone says
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Monotheistic
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is the belief in one god
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Prophet
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a member of some religions (such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) who delivers messages that are believed to have come from God
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Ethics
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moral code, morals, morality, values, rights and wrongs, principles, ideals, standards (of behavior), value system, virtues, dictates of conscience
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Diaspora
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is a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area. The word has come to refer particularly to historical mass dispersions of an involuntary nature, such as the expulsion of Jews from the Middle East
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