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| 98122702 | agricultural villages | Permanent villages, without kings, flourished well, modest social inequalities | 0 | |
| 98122703 | fertile crescent | Name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land stretching from the lower Nile valley, along the east Mediterranean coast, and into Syria and present-day Iraq where agriculture and early civilization first began about 8000 B.C. | 1 | |
| 98122704 | sumer | An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing. | 2 | |
| 98122705 | sargon of akkad | Akkadian king who conquered Sumeria by using city states to form the 1st empire | 3 | |
| 98122706 | gligamesh | legandary Summerian king | 4 | |
| 98122707 | ziggurat | a large, stepped platform temple thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to the city's chief god or goddess by the assyrians and babylonians | 5 | |
| 98122708 | pictograms | the earliest forms of writing in which pictures represent words or ideas | 6 | |
| 98122709 | cuneiform | Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets | 7 | |
| 98122710 | ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound, as is the case with letters in English. | 8 | |
| 98122711 | code of hammurabi | the set of 282 laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety | 9 |
