The first civilizations vocabulary
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| Jericho | show 🗑
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| Catal Huyuk | show 🗑
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| show | People who study and write about the human past.
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| show | Are people that hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been.
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| show | Weapons, tools, and other things made by humans. Archaeologists dig up and study these items.
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| show | Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock.
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| Anthropologist | show 🗑
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| Nomad | show 🗑
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| Technology | show 🗑
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| Domesticate | show 🗑
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| Specialization | show 🗑
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| Tigris River | show 🗑
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| show | River in southwestern Asia that flows through Syria and Iraq and joins the Tigris River near the Persian Gulf.
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| Mesopotamia | show 🗑
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| Sumer | show 🗑
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| show | Once the world's largest and richest city, on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Mesopotamia.
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| Sargon | show 🗑
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| show | A babylonian king. He began conquering cities to the north and south and created the Babylonian Empire.
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| Civilization | show 🗑
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| show | Farmers built water walls, waterways, and ditches to bring water to their fields. Irrigation allowed farmers to grow plenty of food and support a large population.
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| City-state | show 🗑
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| Artisans | show 🗑
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| Cuneiform | show 🗑
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| Scribe | show 🗑
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| show | A group of many different lands under one ruler.
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| Assyria | show 🗑
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| show | An arm of the Arabian Sea in southwestern Asia, between the Arabian Peninsula on the southwest and Iran on the northeast.
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| Nineveh | show 🗑
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| Hanging Gardens | show 🗑
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| show | The Chaldeans wanted to build an empire. Led by Nebuchadnezzar, they controlled all of Mesopotamia from 605 B.C to 562 B.C.
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| show | Political districts.
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| show | Groups of traveling merchants.
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| show | People who study the heavenly bodies- mapped the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon.
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