| A | B |
| fertile | land good for planting |
| exile | being forced to live outside your country |
| monotheism | a belief in one god |
| polytheism | a belief in many gods |
| myth | an untrue story about people's beliefs |
| crescent | the shape like a crescent |
| scribe | a professional writer |
| famine | very little food, many people starve to death |
| bazaar | an open market where goods are sold |
| Iraq | what the fertile crescent is today |
| cuneiform | the first writing |
| Mesopotamia | land between 2 rivers |
| stylus | writing tool |
| peninsula | a piece of land with water on three sides |
| zuggurat | a Sumerian temple |
| 1st schools | Sumerians invented this |