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- 4. Materials or substances such as minerals, forests water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used by people for economic gain
- 5. A Babylonian King is created with building the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon and destroyed much of Jerusalem
- 10. person who has the ability to write in ancient times. Often used to keep records for the goverment
- 12. Is a system where people focus on creating one thing and become specialists in that producing more than they can use and selling the rest
- 13. Believed to the worlds oldest great work of literature that dates back to at least 2100 BCE. The story is known to have influence many Biblical stories
- 14. The "land between the rivers" a general names for the area and the people where civilization first developed
- 15. A society or family that is based around the males
- 18. Archaeological evidence suggests that the city-state of Ur invented the wheel around 3500 BCE considered most important mechanical invention of farming
- 19. A muddy material left behind after a river floods. The material is often a rich nutrients needed in good farmland
- 21. A method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture
- 22. A time period beginning around 3000 BCE where humans began using metal to make tools also humans began developing significance urban development
- 23. The exchange of goods and services of other goods and services
- 24. One of the earliest forms of writing developed by mankind
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- 1. The world's oldest complete Code of Law. Created around 1800 BCE in Babylon, the laws listed crime and punishments
- 2. A society that is based around agriculture and cannot survive without producing much of their own food
- 3. Two parallel rivers in Iraq and Syria where civilization first developed around. The rivers flooded annually providing rich farmland for humans use.
- 6. The belief in multiple gods or goddesses in religion
- 7. A system of organization into groups and rank order them in order of importance to the society. Often uses a pyramid shape
- 8. World's oldest calendar based on lunar cycle and used 354 a year
- 9. Also called the cradle of civilization, an area of modern day Iraq, Syria and Turkey where human civilization developed
- 11. Metal tool that is used to carve open the ground planting-likely dates back about 3200 BCE. Revolutionary invention in the development of farming
- 16. A small independent city that operates like a tiny country. Controls city lands surrounding with own government
- 17. A mostly flat area of land that sits near a water source that floods. The flooding often helps create a rich farmland
- 20. A Mesopotamian religious temple. Ziggurats are tiered buildings and where often the biggest and most important buliding within a city-state