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Man made systems to carry water to places that it is needed.
What is Irrigation
Name of the temple in the middle of the city where they have worship and have rituals.
What is a Ziggurat
The raising of animals and growing of crops
What is Agriculture?
Learning how to take control of animals and plants to have them be useful to humans.
What is Domestication?
When people exchange goods or services with each other to get what they need.
The name of the fertile area where civilization started due to its ability to grow crops
What is Mesopotamia
These are the people who have the job of communicating with the gods.
What are priests?
When you have more than what is needed to survive, extra.
What is a Surplus?
Groups that manage people and resources in a society, such as Government and Organized Religion.
What are complex institutions?
Any item or idea that helps humans solve problems in order to survive better.
What is Technology?
A very fine, fertile soil that is really good for growing crops.
What is Silt?
The name of the Highest-ranking person in the City
Who is Priest-King
The world's first written language system.
What is Cuneiform?
What are City-States?
The managing and storing of information.
What is Record Keeping?
The names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia that flood each year, providing good conditions for growing crops.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
This is the name of a type of religion that means, "Many gods".
What is polytheism?
The job title for someone who had the job of writing and recording information in clay tablets.
What is a Scribe?
The process of designing and building structures like buildings.
What is Architecture?
A person that did any job other than farming, such as metal worker, potter, weaver and bricklayers.
What are Specialized Workers?
The type of land region that Mesopotamia is located in.
Hint: It is hot and dry
What is a desert?
This word refers to living away from cities where it is more out in nature, in the country.
Refers to living in the city instead of out in nature.
A groups of people's shared ideas, beliefs, customs, foods, languages, music and much more.
What is culture?
When two or more civilizations share, or mix different ideas, beliefs, customs, languages, and much more.
What is Cultural Diffusion?