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The Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent vocab words
Term | Definition |
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Canal | An artificial (man-made) waterway for boats or for irrigation |
Civilization | The most advanced stage of human development and orginization |
Code | A collection of orginized laws |
Fertile Crescent | Fertile land in the middle east in a semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
Flooding | Covering or filled with water |
Indus River Valley | Major river valley in Asia, in what is today Pakistan |
Irrigation | Supplying witer water by man-made methods |
Job specialization | Membors of a community the jobs that are most suited for |
Law | A rule of conduct enforced by the goverment |
Mesopotamia | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
Polythemism | A belief in many gods |
Scribes | A class of scholars and copiers who were the basis of the goverment, the army and the proesthood |
Temple | A building for worship |