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DDES Chap 3
Social Studies Chapter 3 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow into this | The Persian Gulf. |
| Sumerian wedge-shaped writing was called | cunneiform |
| An assembly | was a Sumerian council of advisors. |
| Ur | was a famous Sumerian city. |
| This Babylonian king and conqueror established a code of laws | Hammurabi |
| Mesopotamia | means "the land between the rivers." |
| Gilgamesh | was a famous priest-king. |
| a sumerian school was commonly known as a | tablet house. |
| The oldest written records known come from the culture of | Sumer |
| Present day Mesopotamia is | Iraq. |
| A ziggurat | was a Sumerian temple. |
| The Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia about | 3500B.C. |
| The Sumerians took an important step in changing their environment by | using leeves to control the floods on the rivers. |
| At the center of each Sumerian city-state was | a temple, a ziggurat, which was the home of the city's cheif god. |
| In Sumerian society, the middle class included | artisans, shopkeepers, and government officials. |
| The city-states of Sumer were eventually conquered by | Sargon I. |
| As a ruler, Hammurabi is best remembered for | creating a written code of laws. |
| When Sargon I united the conquered city-states, he created the world's first | empire. |
| The oldest written records known come from the culture of | Sumer. |