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chskyliemesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| people who settled in Mesopotamia in about 3500 B.C where called what? | Sumerians |
| Mesopotamia means what? | land between rivers |
| fertile area around Mesopotamia was called what? | fertile crescent |
| what did they learn the control? | the twin rivers |
| what were the twin rivers names? | Tigris and Euphrates |
| what would the two rivers leave behind? | levees |
| what was the chiefs crop? | barley |
| what did they use to make bricks? | mud and reed |
| what was one of the great cities? | Ur |
| each city-state was made up of what? | city and farmland |
| in the center of the of the cities was what? | the upper class |
| what was the upper class made up of? | government officials, shop keepers and artisans or skilled men |
| what was the lower class made up of? | farmers, unskilled workers and fishermen |
| what did the city-states normally go to war for? | boundary lines |
| what was the temple called in the middle of each Sumerian city? | ziggaret |
| who became the kings in 3000 b.c? | military leaders |
| what does ziggaret mean? | "mountain of god" or "hill of heaven" |
| what country controls Mesopotamia today? | Iraq |
| who was the only people that where allowed in the ziggaret? | priest |
| what was around each ziggaret? | courts |
| who went to school? | only boys of the rich |
| what was all forces of nature? | gods |
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