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Question | Answer |
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The Sumerians land in Mesopotamia is called what? | Sumer |
What does "the land between the rivers" mean? | Mesopotamia |
The fertile area around Mesopotamia is also called what? | Fertile Crescent |
The two rivers around Mesopotamia are named what? | Tigris and Euphrates |
The Tigris and Euphrates left natural what when they flooded? | Levees |
The chief crop of the Sumerians was what? | Barley |
There was little what in Sumer? | Timber |
The Sumerians used what to make bricks? | Mud and crushed reeds |
What was one of the great cities of Sumer? | Ur |
Each city - state was made of the city and what around it? | The farmland |
Disputes arose over what between city states? | Boundry |
Ziggurat means what? | Mountain of God or Hill of Heavan |
Only who could enter the Ziggurats? | Priests |
Around the Ziggurat was what? | Courts |
All forces of Nature were viewed as what? | Gods |
Male Gods made what as servants to goddesses? | Humans |
Schools were only for whom? | Songs of the rich |
At school students learned what? | How to become a scribe |
Sumerians used what at first to represent objects? | Pictures |
At first Sumerian priests were also what? | Kings |
One famous priest king is who? | Gilgamesh |
About 3000 b.c. who became permanent kings? | Military leaders |