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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| people who settled in Mesopotamia. | Sumarians |
| what was their area of Mesopotamia? | Sumer |
| what does Mesopotamia mean? | Land between the rivers. |
| what is the fertile crescent? | the fertile area around Mesopotamia. |
| what were the two rivers? | Tigris and Euphrates |
| what did the Tigris and Euphrates leave behind after a flood? | Levees |
| what was the Sumerians chief crop? | Barley |
| what did they use to make bricks? | mud and crushed up reeds. |
| what was one of the greatest cities of Sumer? | Ur |
| what did the bronze gate at the entrance of each city state keep out? | Lions and bandits |
| what would city states go to war over? | boundaries |
| what was the name of the temple found at the center of each city called? | Ziggurat |
| Ziggurats were believed to be the homes of the cities what? | Chief God |
| what surrounded the ziggurats? | courts |
| why did the Sumerians believe that humans were made? | to serve the female godesses |