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Question | Answer |
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Who settled in Mesopotamia about 3000 B.C.? | Sumerians |
Their area of Mesopotamia was known as what? | Sumer |
What does Mesopotamia mean? | The land between the rivers |
What was the fertile area around Mesopotamia called? | Fertile Crescent |
What is the earliest civilization known on Earth? | Sumerian Civilization |
What did the Sumerians learn to control? | The Twin Rivers |
What were the names of the tow rivers? | Tigris and Euphrates |
What would the twin rivers leave behind after a flood? | Natural levees |
When would the Sumerians poke holes in the levees? | when the land became too dry |
What was their cheif crop? | barley |
What was there little of in Sumer? | timber |
What did they mix together to move bricks? | crushed reeds, and mud |
What was a great city of Sumer? | Ur |
What was considered a state in itself? | a city |
What was each city-state made up of? | the city and the farmland around it |
What were the walls around the city for? | to keep out lions and bandits |
Where did the upper class live? | middle of the city |
What was the middle class made up of? | government officials, shopkeepers, and artisans |
What was the lower class made up of? | farmers, unskilled workers, and fishermen |
Why would city-states go to war? | to fight over boundary line disputes |
What does ziggurat mean, and where were they located? | they were in the middle of each city-state and it means mountain of god, or hill of heaven |
Ziggurats were thought to be the home of the city's cheif god, and who could only enter one? | priests |
Around the ziggurats were what, where great events were celebrated, where artisans worked, children went to school, and goods were stored? | courts |
All forces of nature were viewed as what to Sumerians? | gods |
Male gods created humans to be their what? | servents |
Why were the humans on Earth? | to please the gods |
Priests were very powerful because why? | they knew the will of the gods |
School was only for who, what did they learn, and how did they write? | sons of the rich, they learned to be scribes, and they wrote in cuneiformb |