Mesopotamia, the area of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers--home to many EARLY civilizations, floodplain, flat land bordering a river, silt, fine, fertile soil deposited by a river, semiarid, having little rainfall and warm temperatures, drought, a period of little rainfall and warm temperatures, surplus, an amount produced that is more than what is needed, irrigation, the watering of crops, Sumer, an ancient region of southern Mesopotamia, in which civilization arose around the year 3,300 B.C., city-state, a political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmlands, ziggurat, an ancient Sumerian or Babylonian temple that rose in a series of step-like levels, polytheism, a religious belief in many gods or goddesses, bronze, a metal that is a mixture of copper and tin, pictograph, a picture or drawing that represents a word or idea in an early system of writing, stylus, a sharpened reed used to press markings into clay tablets, cuneiform, an ancient writing system developed by the sumerians, made up of wedge-shaped markings, scribe, a persons who specializes in writing and serves as a record keeper, Fertile Crescent, an area of rich soil in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf, Hammurabi, the ruler of the Babylonian empire from 1792 B.B. to 1750 B.C., who expanded the empire, Code of Law, a set of written rules for people to obey, tribute, a payment of money or goods by one ruler to another in order to ensure protection, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, an artifical mountain covered with trees and plants, built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife. The gardens are one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

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