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Fertile Crescent |
an arc of rich farmland in southwest Asia
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Mesopotamia |
An ancient region of SW Asia in present-day Iraq, lying between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates
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Ancient Egypt |
civilization of ancientNortheastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt
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Indus Valley |
Bronze Age civilization that encompassed the area of modern-day Pakistan, as well as parts of southeastern Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and northwestern India
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Ancient China |
China is a country in East Asia whose culture is considered the oldest, still extant, in the world
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Harrappan Civilization |
a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valleycivilization. Bronze Age culture that flourished in the Indus valley.
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City state |
a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
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Empire |
a political unit in which a number of people or countries are controlled by the same ruler
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Kush |
an ancient nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled egypt
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Assyria |
a southwest kingdom that that controlled a large empire
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Persia |
on the eastern side of the Persian Gulf. They were Aryans, their language belonging to the eastern division of the Indo-European group
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