Social Studies Gavin B.

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  1. 2. collection of hundreds of sacred hymns, tells us much of what we know about Aryan life
  2. 3. A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.
  3. 4. A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake
  4. 6. people who performed dirty jobs
  5. 8. written language developed by the Sumerians to keep track of trade
  6. 9. A series of rulers from the same family
  7. 10. Crescent rich area of land that stretches across the Middle East
  8. 11. state containing several countries or territories
  9. 13. wondering of people in search of food before the Agricultural Revolution
  10. 15. Persian leader who conquered Babylon
  11. 18. farmers, laborers, and servants
  12. 19. ruler and warriors class
  13. 20. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
  14. 21. set of shared beliefs
  15. 22. one the the first written set of laws
  16. 23. priestly class
  17. 25. belief in more than one god
  18. 26. temples built by the Sumerians for their gods
  19. 27. change the growth of plants and behavior of animals in ways that are useful to humans
  20. 28. large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent
  21. 30. name given to the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
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  1. 1. Assyrian leader that created the world's first empire
  2. 2. class with landowners, bankers, and merchants
  3. 5. language developed by the Indo-Aryan people
  4. 7. seasonal winds that helped shape life in India
  5. 12. a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats.
  6. 14. A dead body preserved in lifelike condition
  7. 15. a complex society that has cities, a well organized government, and workers with specialized jobs
  8. 16. Egyptians built these structures to protect the bodies of dead pharaohs. These structures also contained items the pharaohs might need in the afterlife.
  9. 17. a great change in farming that led to the growth of civilizations
  10. 24. supplying water to crops to spread farmland
  11. 29. fixed social class into which a person is born