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- city-state
- a city and its surrounding farmlands, with its own leaders and government
- Tigris
- a river in southwestern Asia,begining in eastern Turkey and joining the Euphrates
- cultural diffusion
- the spreading of new ideas to other places
- Phoenicans
- people of Phoenica lived on the northwestern side of the Fertile Crescent
- dikes
- a wall built to keep water out of a low-lying area
- Moses
- a leader of the Isrraelites
- Sargon
- first conqueror of Mespotamia
- ziggurat
- a huge mud-brick temple
- Euphrates
- a river that begins in Turkey,flows through Syria and Iraq, and empties into the Persian Gulf
- Mesopotamia
- an ancient land in southwestern Asia,located between the Euphrates and Tigres rivers
- labor
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- cuneiform
- a system of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia, which is wedge-shaped characters
- monarchy
- the new government of each city-state, where one person had complete authorit to rule in peacetime and to lead soldiers in wartime
- scribe
- a person who wrote things for others
- agriculture
- the raising of domesticated plants or animals
- surplus
- extra food supply
- irrigation
- the use of connected ditches, canals, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas