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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Mesopotamia mean? | land between rivers |
| Who were the people who settled in Mesopotamia? | Sumerians |
| What are the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia? | Tigris and Euphrates |
| When the rivers flooded what did they leave? | levees |
| What was the chief crop? | Barley |
| What did they make bricks from?/ | mud and reeds |
| what was the greatest city of Sumer? | Ur |
| What surrounded a city-state? | farmland |
| What class lived in in the center of the city? | upper class |
| What was in the center of a city? | Ziggurat |
| What would they have disputes over? | boundary lines |
| Only who could enter the chiefs home? | preists |
| What was around the Ziggurat? | courts |
| What were the forces of nature viewed as? | Gods |
| What did the gods make to be servants? | Humans |
| Who went to school? | rich sons |
| What did the rich sons become? | scribes |
| What is cuneiform? | writing made up of wedge shaped markings |
| What were humans on Earth for? | To serve the gods |