Civilizations Emerges in Mesopotamia

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Fertile Crescent

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A region with good conditions for growing crops

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Mesopotamia

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A flat plain between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers

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Irrigate

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to supply water to

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The Sumerians had two class systems.

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False

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worship of many gods or deities

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Polytheism

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temple that was a pyramid-shaped brick tower

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Ziggurat

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prosper

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To gain in wealth

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Sumerians invented this metal which was used to make tools and weapons.

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Bronze

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Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas and things

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Cuneiform

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independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

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A city-state