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Name __________________________________ Class _______________________ Date __________________
Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
Flash Card
Section 1
USING VISUAL CUES Cut out the flash cards below and study the vocabulary
words for this section.
Fertile
Crescent
an area of rich farmland
in Southwest Asia
where the first
civilizations began
proper noun
a mixture of fertile soil
and tiny rocks that can
make land ideal for
farming
silt
noun
irrigation
a way of supplying
water to an area of land
noun
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Flash Card
Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
Section 1
canal
a human-made
waterway
noun
surplus
more of something than
is needed
noun
division of
labor
an arrangement in
which each worker
specializes in a task or
job
noun
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