| A | B |
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| The taming of wild animals and plants is called... | Domestication |
| The two rivers that make up Mesopotamia | the Tigris and Euphrates |
| How Mesopotamian farmers dealt with flooding rivers | They created levees to hold back the river water |
| This group of people wrote and recorded what happened in ancient Sumer | Scribes |
| What do we call the raising of crops and animals? | Agriculture |
| A mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock carried and deposited by a river | Silt |
| What "Mesopotamia" means | Land between the rivers |
| The southernmost Mesopotamia, "land of civilized kings" | Sumer |
| Sumerian tool for writing | Stylus |
| A self-governing city and its surrounding area | City-state |
| building in a Sumerian city-state that houses the temple | Ziggurat |
| The belief in many gods and goddesses | Polytheism |
| An exchange of goods and services | Trade |
| The only people allowed in the temple | Priests |
| Special tax of labor to the city-state | The Burden |
| What Nesaba's distant ancestors did before settling | Hunted and gathered |
