The Technology of Mesopotamia Vocabulary

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evolved changed overtime dynasties lines of rulers from the same family enabled made possible sophisticated complicated, highly developed appointed chosen intervals spaces of time between events fallow unplanted kiln an oven used to make clay into pottery abstract something that shows an idea and not a physical object progression movement from simple to more complex obligations duties; things people must do commodity a good that can be bought and sold conversion a change between one form and another, as from metric to English measure trigonometry the study of the mathematical properties of triangles ziggurat a steep pyramid like tower used as a temple artifact an object made in the far past by human beings communal shared by the members of a group or gathering derived traced or coming from a source; originated inscription writing that is carved, cut, painted, or impressed into or onto a hard surface millennium a period of 1,000 years stationery paper, envelopes, and other materials used for writing utilize to make use of yields the amounts produced; the crops or results of cultivation