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chskelseymesoptamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the people that settled in Mesopotamia in 3500 B.C.? | Sumerian |
| What was the area of Mesopotamia called were the Sumerains lived? | Sumer |
| What does Mesopotamia mean? | The land between the rivers |
| What is the fertile land around Mesopotamia called? | Fertile crescent |
| Did the Sumerians learn how to control the twin rivers? | Yes |
| What are the twin rivers names? | Tigris & Euphrates |
| When the twin rivers flooded they left behind natural what? | Levees |
| What did they do to the levees when the land became dry? | They would poke holes in them |
| What was the chief crop? | Barley |
| There was not much of what in Sumer? | Timber |
| What did the Sumerians mix to make bricks? | Mud & reeds |
| What was the name of one of the great cities? | Ur |
| What was each city-state made up of? | The city and the farmland around it |
| What was the bronze gate made to keep out? | Lions & bandits |
| What did the city-states fight over? | Boundary |
| What was in the center of each Sunerian city? | A temple called a Ziggurat |
| What does Ziggurat mean? | "Mountain of God" or "Hill of Heaven" |
| Who could enter a Ziggurat? | Priests only |
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