1	Fertile Crescent		_____	An advanced stage (as in art, science, and government) of social development. The way of life of a people (Ancient Egyptian Civilization)
2	Sumer		_____	Historically the area stretched from the southeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea around the Syrian Desert north of the Arabian Peninsula to the Persian Gulf, it includes the Nile River valley. A crescent-shaped area of arable land, more agriculturally productive in antiquity than it is today.
3	Ur		_____	An ancient Sumerian City, formely on the Euphrates River in southern Iraq. One of the oldest cities in Mesopotamia.
4	Archaeology		_____	In the ancient city of Shinar, Noah's descendants began to build a tower, (probably in Babylon) they intended it to reach up to heaven. God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another.
5	People groups		_____	One of the eariliest known systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets. Wedge-shaped writing used in Mesopotamia.
6	Antiquity		_____	Region of southern Mesopotamia and site of the earliest known civilization.
7	Civilization		_____	A group with a common self-name sense of common identity, with history, customs, as well as marriage rules and practices.
8	Architecture		_____	A community of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government. The territory of a nation.
9	Babble		_____	The science or profession of developing and using nature's power and resources in ways that are useful to people (as in designing and building roads, bridges, dams or machines and in creating new products)
10	Antediluvian		_____	Ancient times; especially those before the Middle Ages. Objects or monuments and tools left by ancient people.
11	Engineering		_____	To spread widely, to move in different directions
12	Dispersion		_____	A type of rectangular temple tower or tiered mound erected by the Sumerians, Akkadians, and BAbylonians in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq and western Iran)
13	Ziggurat		_____	Uncovering by digging away covering earth. The act or process of excavating.
14	Excavation		_____	To talk foolishly or too much. To make speech sounds that do not make sense to the hearer.
15	Tower of Babel		_____	The science that deals with past human life as shown by fossil relics and the monuments and tools left by ancient peoples
16	Clay tablet		_____	The art or science of designing and building structures, especially ones that can be lived in. A method or style of building.
17	Cuneiform		_____	Of or relating to the period before the Flood described in the Bible
18	Nation		_____	Dating back as far as 3,500 B.C., these were used to record the earliest writings of mankind. These served as the notepads of their day.