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| The Fertile Crescent is the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape, from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt. |
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| fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor. |
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| Irrigation is the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture. If you want to start a strawberry farm in the desert, irrigation will be necessary. Irrigation comes from the Latin for "moist" or "wet," but it means the purposeful wetting of something. |
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| an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation. |
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| an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand. |
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| the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency. |
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in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
"remote rural areas" |
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in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town.
"the urban population" |
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| a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. |
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur |
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| of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great "the Great King" (Akkadian |
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| an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. |
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| the belief in or worship of more than one god. |
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| an ordained minister of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican Church having the authority to perform certain rites and administer certain sacraments. |
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| the power or dominion of a hierarch. an organized body of ecclesiastical officials in successive ranks or orders: the Roman Catholic hierarchy. 5. one of the three divisions of the angels, each made up of three orders, conceived as constituting a graded body. |
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