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Mesopotamia
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Question | Answer |
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what is the climate of Mesopotamia | hot and dry |
what did the Sumerians invent | wheel, plow, cuneiform, irrigation, geometry, sailboat, and calendar |
what are the social classes 3 of each | upper-kings, priests, wealthy landowners, government officials middle-merchants, traders, artisans, laborers, farmers and scribes lower-slaves |
what makes a civilization, a civilization | art, religion, cities, written language, government, social classes |
how was the geography of Mesopotamia perfect for the first civilization to start | the geography has rich soil and water which made it easy to get a surplus of food so that there was more time to invent |
what is an empire | a group of lands ruled by one person |