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Mesopotamia |
the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. |
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Tigris river |
one of the two largest rivers in southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in turkey to the Persian gulf. |
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Euphrates |
one of the two largest rivers in southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in turkey to the Persian gulf.
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Sumer |
an area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared. |
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Irrigation |
a means of supplying land with water |
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levee |
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks. |
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Silt |
Fine particles of rock |
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City-state |
a early city that was like a small independent country with its one laws and government |
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Floods |
came from snow melting in the mountains where the rivers began. |
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Moats |
Sumer constructed these to protect cities from attack |
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Resovoir |
Purpose was to store water for later |
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Zagros |
Mountains that lie between the waters of the caspain sea and the Persian gulf. |
