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| Early period of human history (approximately 2,500,000 to 10,000)in which human used simple stone tools. |
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| "The land between the rivers." |
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| Latest part of the stone age about 10,000 BC in the middle east. |
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| worships many or several gods. |
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| region in southern Mesopotamia |
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| Temples that are structured like a pyramid. |
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| Most powerful civilization to arise in mesopotamia. |
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| Large groups of people living together encouraged job specialization. |
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| the bronze age lasted from 4000 BC too 1000 BC, it was a great time of invention. |
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| is that which distinguishes life in one group form of life in another group. |
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| Was the first story ever made: made by the sumerians. |
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| Earliest known form of writing. |
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| Judaism was unusual because they only worshipped one god. |
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| Ancient valley between the important rivers Tigris and Euphrates. |
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| was a parlimentary republic in the middle east, conquered by babylon. |
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| An Arabic city located near the Jordan River. |
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| A form of goverment in which a few of the most proominent citizens rule. |
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| Used to discribe the geographic region between the mediterranean sea and Jordan River. |
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| Is a social system in which the male is leader to social organizations and where fathers hold authority over women. |
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| A Babylonian leader that set in stone the basic "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" law system. |
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