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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 |
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Created by:
mcarts
on 2009-10-21