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31 Cards in this Set
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Polytheism
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The Belief in many gods
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scribe
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a person who writes
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Innovations
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a new way of doing things
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Monotheism
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a belief in one god
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Ziggurat
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A huge mud,brick temple built by the ancient sumerians
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Wheel
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invintion of round wood pieces rounded and covered with pieces of copper
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Wheeled cart
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cart with wheels used to move heavy things and pulled by an animal
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Dikes
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dikes were built to hold flooding rivers in their banks.
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Canals
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Carried extra water back to the rivers after floods.
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agriculural Revolution
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The importance of agriculture
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Writing
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one of the sumarians greatest inovations because of the need to keep records
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Cuneiform
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the sumarians writing system
system of wedged shaped symbols. |
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wedge shaped symbols
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the symbols that made up the cuneiform writing system.
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Clay Tabelets
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soft clay tablets that sumarians used to write on
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Stylus
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The writing tool that was a pointed reed.
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Scribe
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person who wrote things for others
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City-State
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a city or village and the farmlands around it. Had its own government
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Monarchy
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The new government in which one person had complete authority.
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Nomad
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a person who wonders from place to place
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Surplus
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extra supply
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Mesopotamia
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The land between the rivers
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Fertile crescent
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Eastern shore of mediteranian sw asia and curves around the syrian desert and reaches the persian gulf.
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Sumer
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one of the earliest cities to develop in the mesopotamia region
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Tigris
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One the rivers at the eastern end of the fertile crescent.
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Euphrates
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One of the rivers at the eastern end of the fertile crescent. Used to water crops
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Birthplace of civilization
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fertile crescent
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Civilization
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centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of govering and learning
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Domesticate
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to adopt or make fit for domestic use.
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Social Class
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groups with differant levels of importance
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Alphabet
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the symbols that are used in a writing system
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Mondern Day Countries in mesopotamia
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Isreal, Iraq, Iran, Lebadon, Syria, Kuwait.
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