Silt= is a solid, dust-like sediment that water, ice, and wind transport and deposit.

Irrigation= Irrigation is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow
crops, landscape plants, and lawns.

Surplus= An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of
production or supply over demand.

City-state=A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political,
economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory.

Polytheism=Is the belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and
goddesses, along with their own religious sects and rituals.

Ziggurat=A ziggurat is a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia.

Cuneiform=Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient
Near East.

Scribe=Is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of
manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.

Epic=A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and
adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.

Obstacle= Is an object, thing, action or situation that causes an obstruction.

Empire= is a political unit made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest,
and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries".

Code= In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert

information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture

Military= A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force
primarily intended for warfare.

Tribute= A tribute is wealth, often in kind, that a party gives to another as a sign of submission,
allegiance or respect.

Province= Is almost always an administrative division within a country or state.

Region= In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions
of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics,

Complex= So complicated or intricate as to be hard to understand or deal with

Caravan= A caravan or cafila is a group of people traveling together, often on a trade expedition.

Fertile Crescent= The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning
modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan.
Hammurabi= Hammurabi was the sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire, reigning from c.
1792 to c. 1750 BC.

Babylon= Babylon is an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia.