The Fertile Crescent

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A region of the Middle East that stretches in a large crescent - shaped curve that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. *Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers *Earliest known civilization

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Fertile Crescent

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A wide flat plain in present day Iraq. Within the fertile crescent

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Mesopotamia

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Which continent was Mesopotamia located on?

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Asia

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What technology increased the amount of farmland in the Fertile Crescent by bringing water to the fields?

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irrigation canals

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What is the name for an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory? Sumer was the first.

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city-state

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What is left behind after a flood?

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Silt

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A single, self-governing city that functions as an independent country, controlling its own army, laws, and with its own ruler.

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City State

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The belief in more than one God. Sumerians believed these Gods controlled Everything.

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Polytheism

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Pyramid shaped brick tower, temples in which people worshiped Gods.

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ziggurats

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Set of laws or rules that governed a group of people

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