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Good Morning!. Please get out your Interactive Notebook. In your table of contents please add “Unit 2 Vocabulary”. Notebook Set Up. Word. What I think it means. Real Definition. The Words.

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  1. Good Morning! Please get out your Interactive Notebook. In your table of contents please add “Unit 2 Vocabulary”

  2. Notebook Set Up Word What I think it means Real Definition

  3. The Words • Civilization, Region, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Conquest, Cooperation, Domestication, Agriculture, Innovation, Movement, Resources, Irrigation, Flood, Silt, Mountains, Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent, Tigris River, Euphrates River

  4. Civilization • A culture marked by developments in arts, sciences, government, and social structure

  5. Region • an area that is defined by certain similar characteristics. Those unifying or similar characteristics can be physical, natural, human, or cultural. 

  6. Place • an area that is defined by everything in it

  7. Human-Environment Interaction • the relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it

  8. Conquest • the act or process of conquering (to get or gain by force of arms)

  9. Cooperation • to act, work, or associate with others so as to get something done

  10. Domestication • To train a wild animal to be useful to humans

  11. Agriculture • The business of farming

  12. Innovation • a new idea, method, or device

  13. Movement • the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another

  14. Resources • something such as useful land, or minerals such as oil or coal, that exists in a country and can be used to increase its wealth

  15. Irrigation • A means of supplying land with water

  16. Flood • a very large amount of water that covers an area that is usually dry

  17. Silt • Fine particles of rock

  18. Mountains • an elevation higher than a hill

  19. Mesopotamia • In ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Present day Iraq.

  20. Fertile Crescent • an ancient area of fertile soil and important rivers stretching in an arc from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates.

  21. Tigris River • one of the two main rivers of Mesopotamia. The Tigris is the river to the east.

  22. Euphrates River • one of the two main rivers of Mesopotamia. The Euphrates is the river to the west.

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