| A | B |
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| Fertile Crescent | A strip of well-watered land shaped like a crescent |
| Mesopotamia | "The land between two rivers" |
| Drought | A long period of dry weather |
| Famine | Widespread lack of food |
| Surplus | An extra supply of something, such as food |
| Barter | To trade one kind of product for another without the use of money |
| City-state | A self-governing city and the lands surrounding it |
| Ziggurats | Temples used to honor the gods and godesses they worshiped. |
| Cuneiform | System of writing used by the Sumerians |
| Hammurabi | Babylonian ruler |
| Code of Hammurabi | The world's first effort to record laws |
| Tigris River | Borders Mesopotamia on the east |
| Euphrates River | Borders Mesopotamia on the west |
| Persian Gulf | Water from the Tigris and Euphrates drains into this body of water |
| Hanging Gardens of Babylon | One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
| Irrigation | The watering of dry farm land by using canals or pipes |
| Surplus | An extra supply |
| Specialization | People are trained to do a certain type of work |
| Division of Labor | Another term for specialization |
