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land that is rich farmland, composed of silt, sand, or gravel deposited by running water first civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture The earliest known people of the Fertile Crescent were the Sumerians

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1. land that is rich farmland, composed of silt, sand, or gravel deposited by running water
2. first civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture
3. The earliest known people of the Fertile Crescent were the Sumerians. About 4000 B.C. they lived in southern Mesopotamia in a number of independent city-states. Each consisted of a small city and its surrounding area.
   -built walls because there are no natural barriers
4. the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety
5. maize, squash, adn beans
6. rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains
7. Large amounts of rade happened in this body of water between Arab, Persian, Turkish, Indian, African, Chinese, and Europe merchants. Particularly in the postclassical period 9600-1450)
8.  (oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
9. high plateau
10. a potentially fatal disease caused by parasites carried by tsetse fly
11. animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future
12. a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
13.  (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
14. 1) All life is full of suffering, pain, and sorrow. 2) The cause of suffering is nonvirtue, or negative deeds and mindsets such as hated and desire. 3) The only cure for suffering is to overcome nonvirture. 4) The way to overcome nonvirtue is to follow the Eightfold Path
15. A series of 22 written symbols that represented sounds.
16. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire, ranging from the Ionian Revolt (499-494 B.C.E.) through Darius's punitive expedition that failed at Marathon. Chronicled by Herodotus. (131)
17. A city-state in ancient Greece
18. the thinking and questioning of established ideas that relied not on the gods for reference, claiming that human reason was adequate enough to come up with a rational answer
19. son of Philip II; received military training in Macedonian army and was a student of Aristotle; great leader; conquered much land in Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; goal was to conquer the known world
20. the spread of Greek culture, begun during the time of Alexander the Great