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79505428Agricultural VillageA relatively small, egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture. Starting over 10,000 years ago, people began to cluster in agricultural villages as they stayed in one place to tend their crops.0
79505429Fertile CrescentFound along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, this was the first early river civilization. The cities in this area were governed by city-states and used irrigation to produced their corps.1
79505430MesopotamiaThe region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; birthplace of the Sumerian and Babylonian Civilizations.2
79505431SumerAn ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing.3
79505432Sargon of AkkadA conqueror from Akkad, north of Sumer, who took over all of Mesopotamia and created the world's first empire.4
79505433Gilgamesha legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories5
79505434ZigguratGreat temples built by City priests to consolidate their temporal and supernautral influences.6
79505435PictogramsThe earliest forms of writing in which pictures represent words or ideas7
79505436CuneiformA system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.8
79505437IdeogramsPictures or characters representing a thing or an idea9
79505438Code of HammurabiThe set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety10

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