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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who were the people who settled in Mesopotamia in 3500 b.c? | Sumerians |
| What was there area in Mesopotamia known as? | Sumer |
| What does Mesopotamia mean? | Land Between Rivers |
| What was the fertile area around Mesopotamia called? | the fertile crescent |
| What did the Sumerians learn to control? | The twin rivers |
| What were the twin rivers called? | Tigris and Euphrates |
| What was left behind when the twin rivers flooded? | levees |
| What was the chief crop? | barley |
| What would they use the levees for? | they would build the levees even higher and then poke holes in them when the land became dry. |
| What was the earliest known civilization on earth? | The Sumerian civilization |
| What was there little of in sumer that made them have to find other materials to build? | timber |
| What did they make by mixing mud from the river and by crushing reeds? | bricks |
| What was one of the great cities of Sumer? | Ur, the Sumerians were city-builders of this area. |
| Each city-state was made up of the city and the what around it? | farmland |
| Each city-state was surrounded by a wall with a bronze gate to keep out what? | lions and bandits |
| Near the center of the city lived the upper class, then the middle class were behind the wealthy. The middle class was made up of what? | government officials, shop keepers, and artisans |
| The lower class lived further out than the middle class. They were made up of what? | farmers, unskilled workers, and fisherman |
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