- city-state: a political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmlands
- Civilazation: a human society with an advanced level of development in a social and political organization and in the arts and sciences
- Domesticate: Humans learned to grow and tend plants
- Drought: a period of little rainfall, in which growing crops become difficult
- Examples osf socialized skills: farming
- Floodplain: flat land bordering a river
- Geography: the study of earth and its people
- Government: a system for creating order and providing leadership
- Hominids: creatures that walk on two feet including humans
- Hunter-Gatherers: They hunted animals and gathered plants for food
- Irrigation: The watering of crops
- King: the highest-ranking leader of a group of people
- Latitude: imaginary lines that measre east and west of the equator
- Longitude: imaginary lines that measure north and south of the equattor
- Lucy: She was the first human.
- Mesolithic Age: This is the midddlestone age which lasted happened during 10,000 and 6,000 B.C
- Mesopatamia: The land between two rivers
- Migration: The act of moving from one place to another
- Neotithic Age: This was the new stone age which lasted from 8,000 to 3,000 B.C.
- Paleolithic Age: This is the old stone age which lasted from 2.5 million to 8,00 B.C.
- Polytheism: a belief in many G-ds or goddesses
- Religion: The worship odf G-d, gods or spirits
- Silt: fine, fertile soil deposited by a river
- Slash and burn: to cut a plant and burn it to make soil
- Social class: A board group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status
- Sumer: an ancient region of southern mesopatamia, in which civilazation arose around 3300 B.C.
- Surplus: An extra of something that you trade
- Technology: It consists all of the ways in which people apply knowledge
- Two rivers: Tigris and Euphrates
- ziggurat: an ancient sumerian or babylonian temple that rose in a series of steplike levels
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