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12 Cards in this Set
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Mesopotamia
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the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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Euphrates River
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one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from mountains in Turkey to the Persian golf
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Tigris River
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one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from mountains in Turkey to the Persian golf
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Sumer
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an area in Southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
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irrigation
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a means of supplying land with water
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levee
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a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding it's banks.
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silt
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fine particles of rock.
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city state
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an early city that was like a small, independent country with it's own laws and government.
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Floods
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came from snow melted in the mountains where the rivers began.
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moats
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Sumer constructed these to protect cities from attack.
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resevoir
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purpose was to store water for later
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zagros
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mountains that lie between the waters of the caspian sea snd the persian golf
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