fertile - when land is capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops., civilization - The society, culture, and way of life in a particular region, irrigate - The method of supplying water to an area of land or crops, Fertile Crescent - A large region of rich farmland near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers., canals - Waterways made by humans, surplus - More than what is needed, polytheism - Worship of many gods, monotheism - Worship of one god, epic - Long poems that tell stories of heros, Gilgamesh - King of Uruk and hero from the Epic of Gilgamesh, ziggurat - Pyramid-shaped temple tower, Division of Labor - An arrangement in which workers specialize in a particular task, city-state - a political unit with a city and the area around it., Sargon - Akkadian leader who established the world's first empire, empire - territories and groups of people under a single rule, social hierarchy - division of society by rank or class, cuneiform - world's first system of writing, scribe - writer, architecture - the practice of designing and constructing buildings, monarch - a ruler in a kingdom or empire,

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