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Mesopotamia
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Region between the Tigris and Euphrates - first place Neolithic people settled
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Sumer
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Region in Mesopotamia - first city-state
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Hammurabi
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King of Babylonia - first empire
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city-states
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small villages/cities surrounded by country side and farmland
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ziggurats
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pyramid shaped temples
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cunieform
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first writing system - wedged shaped symbols - looked like stalks of barley
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pictograph
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pictures that represented sound or words
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irrigation
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the process of using canals to direct water to the crops
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polytheism
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belief in many gods
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agrarian
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used to describe a civiliaton that is based on agriculture
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Mesopotamian contibutions
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irrigation and Math system based on 60 - where we get our measurement of time, Hammurabi's code
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Hammurabi's code
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1st system of laws - we still use some of them today
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agricultural revolution
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the change from nomadic lifestyles to the development of agriculture. Increased food supply which caused an increase in population.
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