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| A powerful Babylonian king who provided law |
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| Cities and the surrounding territories |
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| Sumerian writing made up of wedge-shaped signs |
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| Sumerian governmental and religious leader |
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| Territories governed by a single ruler or nation |
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| Change that leads to improvement |
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| Oldest known story in the world written about him in 1700 BC |
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| Created the world’s first empire |
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| The land between the rivers |
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| Ancient people who lived in the geographic region of Sumer |
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| Society with a developed knowledge of farming, trade, government, art, and science |
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| Most Sumerians lived near this river |
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| Basis of life for most Sumerians in fertile crescent |
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| An expert who studies and records the past |
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| An expert who studies and creates maps of Earth’s natural and human-made features |
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| Fair treatment of all people in a society |
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| People who study human beings |
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| People who study ruins and artifacts |
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| Development of occupations |
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| A trash heap containing bones, shells, and stone tools |
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| The study of how people earn a living |
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| The study of location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region |
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| A people’s practical and applied arts and sciences by which they make the things they need and want |
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| A graphic representation of the passage of time on a line |
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| Heating iron metals to remove impurities |
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| A crescent-shaped area of fertile land in the Middle East that extends from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf |
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