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Vocab for Mesopotamia

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What is agriculture?

Farming of crops and raising of animals

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What is irrigation?

Moving fresh water to be used for farming or drinking

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What is the vocab word that means an area with soil that is good for farming?

Fertile

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What is it called when there is a society with cities, government, different jobs and different levels of power (king, farmer, warriors)?

Civilization

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What is a drought?

a long period of time with little rain

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Define with Natural Resource means

Materials found in nature that are used by living things

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What is a plow?

A tool used to cut and lift soil. It is used to help with farming

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What is cueiform?

a form of writing developed in Mesopotamia

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What is when people are ranked into higher and lower positions of respect and power?

Social Hiearchary

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What does surplus mean?

Having more of something than you need to survive

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What is division of labor?

When people in a group have different jobs and everyone becomes skilled (good) at their job and get a lot done

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What does polytheism mean?

Belief in more than one god

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What does monotheism mean?

Belief in one god

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What is a scribe?

A person whose job it was to write and record things

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What is a ziggurat?

A pyramid shaped temple in Mesopotamia

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