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The flat land that borders the banks of a river
What is a floodplain?
Canals to help water crops
What is irrigation?
Provides people with advantages that can not be found in farmlands.
What are advanced cities?
A period when there isn't enough rain or snowfall.
What is a drought?
Between the Tigris and Euphrates river
What is Mesopotamia?
One of these items helps break up the earth when farming. The other will help you transport your crops into town.
What are the plow and wheel?
Requires special skills
Specialized jobs
Having more than enough.
What is a surplus?
What is semiarid?
Thanks to this invention we have 60 seconds in a minute. 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle.
What is the number system?
Every civilization creates groups that have a purpose that serves the people, such as religion and government.
What are insitutions?
The first civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
The largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city, located in the middle of the city.
What is a Ziggurat?
Symbols that were used in record keeping to know the differences in items.
What is a pictograph?
Created the world's first writing system for this reason.
What is record keeping?
The people of Mesopotamia go to the ziggurat to worship many gods and goddesses, what is this belief called?
What is polytheism?
Due to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flooding, this is deposited and creates fertile land. Making it easy to grow crops.
What is silt?
Sumerians used this item while writing this type of written language.
What are a stylus and cuneiform?
Creating something new to better people's lives.
They are the highest-ranked person in the city-state, but priests used to rule before them.
What are kings?