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| curved shape and the richness of its land led scholars. |
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| Lands facing the Mediterranian Sea. |
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| City and the surroundings lands it controlled. |
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| A series of rules from a single family. |
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| broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river. |
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| Process in which new ideas or products spreads from one culture to another. |
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| believe in more than one god |
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| brings together people nations or previously independent states under the control of one ruler. |
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| Babylonian Empire at peak |
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| solid evidence points to a king. |
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| A type of government in which rule is based on religious authority. |
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| A massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides. |
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| A process of enbalming and drying corpes to prevent them from decaying. |
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| Earliest form of writing in Egypt, but scribes quickly develope a more flexible writing system. |
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| A tall reed that grows in the Nile Delta |
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| land mass that includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. |
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| Indus Valley Civilization |
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| One of the animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chinese priest to communicate with the gods. |
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| In Chinese history, the devine approval thought to be the basis of the royal authority. |
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| the pattern of rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties. |
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| a political system which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of landsthast legally belong to the king. |
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