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nomad |
a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons |
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cultural diffusion |
the spread of cultural elements from one society to another |
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neolithic |
latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) |
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civilization |
the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste, a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) |
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polytheistic |
worshipping or believing in more than one god |
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fertile cresent |
a land mass that is shaped like a crescent moon, it has the best land to grow crops in southwest asia, it gets fludded in the mountains, it has to rivers running through the cities |
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cuneiform |
an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia |
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dynasty |
a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family |
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