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Question | Answer |
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What does Mesopotamia mean? | land between rivers |
Who were the people who settled in Mesopotamia? | Sumerians |
What are the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia? | Tigris and Euphrates |
When the rivers flooded what did they leave? | levees |
What was the chief crop? | Barley |
What did they make bricks from?/ | mud and reeds |
what was the greatest city of Sumer? | Ur |
What surrounded a city-state? | farmland |
What class lived in in the center of the city? | upper class |
What was in the center of a city? | Ziggurat |
What would they have disputes over? | boundary lines |
Only who could enter the chiefs home? | preists |
What was around the Ziggurat? | courts |
What were the forces of nature viewed as? | Gods |
What did the gods make to be servants? | Humans |
Who went to school? | rich sons |
What did the rich sons become? | scribes |
What is cuneiform? | writing made up of wedge shaped markings |
What were humans on Earth for? | To serve the gods |