Vocabulary

3. to bring water an area for farming purposes
5. a religious temple, was the centerpiece of all Mesopotamian city-states
6. any skilled manual worker
10. location where civilization first began, in modern day Turkey, Syria and Iraq
12. person who writes and or copies books and records
14. a family where the father is the centerpiece or a male dominated society
17. any found in nature used to meet people's needs
18. landform that is flat or mostly flat, typically good for farming
20. is the belief in many gods

1. is another name for a god, or someone with god like powers
2. two parallel rivers Turkey, Syria and where civilization first started
4. a city that operates like a small independent country complete with a government , religion, language
7. an earthen embankment designed to prevent a river from overflowing its banks or a bank of earth used to separate areas of farm land
8. also known as the Fertile Crescent; the first powerful human civilization
9. another term for farming, controlling the planting and growing of a food sorce
11. advanced state of society with a government and social hieracrchy
13. exchanging good and services for other goods and services
15. the long term pattern of temperature and rainfall in a location
16. taming of plants and animals primary as a source of food or to help with labor tasks
19. one of the early forms of written text