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| an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached. |
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| an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq. |
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| the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the Talmud. |
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| a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters. |
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| bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, |
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| bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, |
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| the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming. |
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| the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops. |
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| second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC |
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