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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Mesopotamia mean? | land between river |
| Sumerians were the people who settled in Mesopotamia in what time? | 3500 B.C |
| What were the names of the twin rivers? | Euphrates and Tigris |
| What was the chief crop? | Barley |
| What did they use to make bricks? | they used mud and crushed reeds,then they mixed them. |
| What is the city and farmland around it? | City-state |
| The people surrounded the city with what (to keep out Bandits and Lions)? | A wall with a bronze gate. |
| The upper class lived where? | Near the center of the city. |
| What did the city-states fight over? | The boundaries. |
| What were the temples in the Sumerian City called? | Ziggurats. |
| Around the ziggurats were what? | Courts. |
| The sons of rich were the only ones allowed to go where? | To school. |
| The sons of rich were learning how to become what? | Scribes. |
| Sumerian priest were also what? | Kings. |
| One of the most famous priest-kings was who? | Gilgamesh. |