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What does the word mesopotamia mean
Land before the rivers
What is a modern day country was mesopotamia in?
Iraq
What is a floodplain?
An area of low-lying ground next to a rive formed mainly of silt and mud and subject to flooding.
What does silt mean?
An especially fine and fretile soil
What does Civilization mean?
A society with highly developed culture and technology
City state
A self goveroning unit made up os a city and its surrounding settlements
Cuneiform
Ealiest form of writting invented by summerians.
Scribe
A professional writter who recorded official information.
Monotheism
The wordshop of a single god.
Polyheism
A belief in many gods.
Code of law
Written laws/organized set of laws.
Justice
Equal treatment under the law
Empire
A group of differnent lands and people.
Judaism
The religion of the hebrews.
Exodus was?
When moses led the slaves out of slavery from egypt.
