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Two rivers that surround Mesopotamia

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Tigeris and Euphrates

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Rivers where indus civilization settled along

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Indus and Ganges rivers

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River where kingdoms in Egypt were centered around

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The Nile

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Named for its yellow silt

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Yellow river

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Seasonal wind in Southern Asia bring heavy rains

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Monson

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The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops

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Irrigation

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Ancient Mesopotamian irrigation tool with a bucket and lever water lifting device

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Shaduf

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The cutting out of flat areas into new virtical slopes to allow farming

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Terrace farming

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Artificial barriers used to help control flooding

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Dams and levees

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10
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Some people call the later part of the Neolithic age the _ age

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Bronze

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You may be unable to link complex trade routes due to _

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Geographic isolation

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An agricultural method in which land is cleared and used for a few years until soil is depleted of nutrients

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Shifting agriculture

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Agriculture that takes place in the immediate surroundings of a permeant settlement

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Sedentary agriculture

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A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food clothing and shelter

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Pastoralism

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A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures

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Transhumance

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The variety of life in a particular place

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Biodiversity

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Type of annual tax that is payable by labor

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Corvée labor

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A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and can be bought and sold as such

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Chattel slavery

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Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks

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Ziggurat

20
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Huge triangular shaped burial tombs of pharaohs

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Pyramid

21
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Legendary Sumerian King who had many stories and legends written about him

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Gilgamesh

22
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Legendary Chinese emperor who was the founder of the Xia dynasty

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Yu the great

23
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Land between rivers

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Mesopotamia

24
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Society that was ruled by a pharaoh and existed around the Nile

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Egypt

25
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Site of one of the greatest Indus Valley civilizations of the third millennium

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Harappa

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Second Chinese dynasty which was a farming society ruled mostly by warfare

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Shang dynasty

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Longest dynasty in Chinese history

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Zhou dynasty

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A form of writing developed by Sumerians with clay tablets

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Cuneiform

29
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An ancient Egyptian writing system in witch pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

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Hieroglyphics

30
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The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period

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Oracle bones

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Money paid for protection or to demonstrate submission and loyalty

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Tribute

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A civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile valley noted for trade and tribute routes

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Nubia

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A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male

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Patriarchy

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A farming method involving the cutting of trees, then burning them to provide ash-enriched soil for planting crops

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Slash burn

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A formal organization of government labor with a higharchy of authority a clear social division

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Bureaucracy

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People who domanated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium BCE

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Babylon

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Set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire

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Hammurabi’s Code

38
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Principle of corresponding punishment

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Lex Talionis

39
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Method of determining innocence or guilt by subjecting the accused to dangerous tests believed to be under the Devine control

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Trial by order

40
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Indus Valmy city laid out in a grid pattern. Had a complex irrigation and sewer system

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Mohenjo Daro

41
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Nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient china

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Xiongnu

42
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A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source

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Mandate of Heaven

43
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The historical pattern of the rise and fall of dynastys

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Dynastic Cycle

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