Mesopatamia
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- Urban
- relating to a city or cities
- Plateau
- a high flat area of land
- Tribuatary
- a branch of river
- allovial plain
- land formed from fine soils deposited by a river
- drought
- a long time with little or no rain
- silt
- a mixture of bits or rock and sil carried or deposited by water
- irrigation
- the use of connected ditches, canals, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas
- Technology
- the skills and knowledge to make products or meet goals.
- government
- a system used to make laws and decisions
- zigguarat
- a huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient sumerians
- civilization
- a centralized society with developed forms of religion , ways of governing, and learning components, architecture, social classes, writing, inventions, innovation, government, religion.
- monarchy
- the system of government in which a king or queen rules
- city-state
- a city and its surrounding framland built with its own leaders and government
- scribe
- a person who writes
- innovation
- a new way of doing things