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where did the earliest known civilization begin?
on the tigris and uphrates rivers.
The tigris and Euphrates rivers each flow about how many miles each?
1000 miles each.
Those waters empty into what GULF?
persian gulf.
today the land between two rivers in a part of what country.
iraq.
in ancient times the land between two rivers was called what?
mesopatamia.
migrate
move
for the first time people began to control their what?
enviroment.
the chief crop of sumer is what?
barley.
as the population grew, what did they build?
cities.
ziggurat
temple.
culture
way of life
reform
improvement
reign
period of power.
sargon the 1 ruled what?
akkad.
what language did mesopotamia speak?
akkidian
cuneiform
sumarian writing
the poor were fed at what place?
courts ouside of ziggurats
the earliest know record are from that part of the early world?
sumer.