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The act of bringing water to dry fields by such things as canals and pipes
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Irrigation
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Cities that had their own governments
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City-states
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The belief in many gods and goddesses
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Polytheism
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A group of different lands under one ruler
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Empire
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An official record keeper
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Scribe
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The region of land near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, that is shaped like a quarter moon, that was fertilezed by the yearly flooding
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Fertile Crescent
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The rivers that the civilization of Mesopotamia made use of, and are located in present day Iraq
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Tigris & Euphrates
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The civlization that is also known as "Land between two rivers"
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Mesopotamia
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An area of elevated flat land
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Plateau
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Long periods of dry weather
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Drought
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The region of Mesopotamia united by Sargon, and made contributions such as the wheel and plow
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Sumerian Empire
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The system of writing invented in Sumer that used wedge shapes
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Cuneiform
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