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| 7288185758 | Fertile Crescent | an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began |  | 0 |
| 7288187862 | Mesopotamia | Land between two rivers |  | 1 |
| 7288189124 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) |  | 2 |
| 7288190343 | city state | an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government |  | 3 |
| 7288192833 | dynasty | A series of rulers from the same family |  | 4 |
| 7288195474 | polytheism | Belief in many gods |  | 5 |
| 7288196601 | empire | A land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler |  | 6 |
| 7288197705 | delta | A triangle shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river |  | 7 |
| 7288198882 | Pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political leader |  | 8 |
| 7288199894 | theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders |  | 9 |
| 7288201667 | pyramid | great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh |  | 10 |
| 7288206669 | mummification | practice of preserving the bodies of the dead |  | 11 |
| 7288209602 | hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing that involved using pictures to represent words. |  | 12 |
| 7288210944 | papyrus | Egyptian paper made from a plant grown along the Nile |  | 13 |
| 7288212324 | subcontinent | A large landmass that juts out from a continent |  | 14 |
| 7288215556 | monsoon | seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons |  | 15 |
| 7288218534 | Harappan Civilization | Ancient settlements in the Indus River Valley |  | 16 |
| 7288220203 | loess | A wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt |  | 17 |
| 7288221842 | oracle bone | a bone commonly used during the Shang dynasty in China to predict the future |  | 18 |
| 7288223828 | Mandate of Heaven | a power or law believed to be granted by a god |  | 19 |
| 7288225125 | dynastic cycle | The rise and fall of dynasties |  | 20 |
| 7288229098 | feudalism | A system of government based on landowners and tenants |  | 21 |
