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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who settled in Mesopotamia were called | Sumerians |
| The area was known as | Sumer |
| Mesopotamia means | "The land between the rivers" |
| The land around Mesopotamia is called | Fertile Crescent |
| The Sumerians controlled the | Twin Rivers |
| The chief crop of the Sumerian civilization was | barely |
| Were was there little timber | Sumer |
| One of the greatest city of Sumer was | Ur |
| Farmland surrounded the | city state |
| The lower class lived further out than the | middle and upper classes |
| At the center of each city was a Ziggurat | Around the Ziggurat were courts |
| The forces of nature were viewed as | gods |
| Humans were on the earth th please the | gods |
| Writing was developed because people had to keep track of | business deals |
| The two Twin Rivers were | Tigris Ephrates |
| Writing that was made up of wedge shaped markings was | cuneiform |
| the lower class was made up of | fishermen,unskilled workers,farmers |
| the middle class was made up of | government officials, shopkeepers, artisans |
| Ziggurat means | hill of heaven and mountain of god |