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Mesopotamia Chapter5
Question | Answer |
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In ancient Sumer each city-state had a ziggurat where people went to ___ | worship a special god or goddess |
__________________made it especially difficult to farm in southern Mesopotamia? | droughts and irregular floods |
The Code of Hammurabi was a _______ | set of laws |
Nineveh was important because it became the ___________. | capital of the city of Babylonia |
Mesopotamia’s most important crops were _______ | wheat & barley |
_______________________ was not grown by ancient Mesopotamians farmers | figs |
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers overflowed during the ____________ season. | harvesting |
The system of writing in ancient Mesopotamia was called_________ | cuneiform |
Trade occurred between the Sumerians and the ________________ | Phoenicians |
______________________ is a present day country that is not in the Fertile Crescent | Egypt |
Scribes did not write _______________________ | contracts |
This king of Babylon who write the first code of laws is ___________________________ | Hammurabi |
___________________________ was a Sumerian hero | Gilgamesh |
__________________ was the king of Kish who used cuneiform to expand his empire and unite the other city-states | Sargon |