30 Fertile Crescent Facts
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| Ranking People according to their jobs led to this. | The developement of the first social classes
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| Why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations? | Surpluses in food meant that not everyone had to search for food
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| How did ancient rulers use public work projects to provide for the defense of the city? | Built walls around the city to protect it from the attack.
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| How did cities change the way people worked? | People specialized in jobs for the first time.
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| How did ancient rulers use public work projects to ensire the cities' food supplies? | Built irragation systems, roads, bridges, and kept records of harvest.
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| What did ancient people invent to record grain harvests and keep accurate records of the seasons? | Writing
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| In the ancient world, who was specially trained to read and write? | Scribes
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| Why were the first laws written? | To regulate the behavior of people who were now strangers to one another in cities.
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| What tasks did the first organized governments perform? | Write laws, collect taxes, provide food supply, and maintain defense.
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| List any three groups of people who developed civilizations in the Fertile Crescent. | Akkadians,Assyrians, Babylonians, Hebrews,Hitties, Medes, Persians, and Sumerians.
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| What developed as a result of the need to control rivers, collect taxes, and build public works projects. | The first centralized governments in history.
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