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131crafts and craftspeople — Some basic and essential crafts, such as pottery, leatherwork, brick making, and basket making, developed very early in Mesopotamia, in the late Stone Age (or Neolithic Age, ca. 10,000 6,000 b.c.). Crude forms of a few crafts leatherworking,… …
132somewhat — some•what [[t]ˈsʌmˌ(h)wʌt, ˌ(h)wɒt, (h)wət, ˌwʌt, ˌwɒt, wət[/t]] adv. 1) in some measure or degree; to some extent 2) some part or amount; something • Etymology: 1150–1200 …
