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| people who travel from place to place and have no permanent home |
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| region where Africa, Asia, and Europe meet in the middle of the eastern hemisphere |
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an area of the Middle East where water and rich soil is abundant due to the 2 rivers
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| the two rivers located in the Middle East in an area known as the Fertile Crescent |
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| to tame to fit the needs of people (ex. farming is domesticating plants & herding is domesticating animals) |
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| occurs when different people perform different jobs in a civilization |
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| the approximate date that CITIES developed in the Fertile Crescent and marked the beginning of civilization |
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| a city and its surrounding farms |
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| an extra supply of something (ex. farming provided a surplus of food) |
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| systems used to move water from one place to another (ex. canals brought water to crops from rivers) |
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differents jobs, skills, or occupations
(ex. carpenter or tool maker) |
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| to trade goods or services |
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| means "land between the rivers" and is located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
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| means hot and dry; describes the climate of the Middle East |
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