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