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Mesopotamia

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reign	period of power
levees	raised areas of land
Mesopotamia	cradle of civilization
culture	way of life
empire	group of states under one ruler
Sargon I	ruler of Akkad
Sumer	southern Mesopotamia
ziggurat	mountain of god or hill of heaven
calendar	marked the times for religious festivals
reform	improvement
calendar	based on cycles of the moon
city-states	made up of the city and the farmland around it
Gilgamesh	famous priest-king
surplus	extra
Sumerians	inventors of the wheel
artisans	skilled workers
Hammurabi	king of Babylon
cuneiform	Sumerian writing made up of wedge-shaped signs
Ur	great city of Sumer
barley	chief crop of Sumerians

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