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Unit 3: 6th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the Fertile Crescent? | A large arc of fertile farmland in S.W Asia. |
| What is silt? | A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks. |
| What is civilization? | An organized society within a specific area. |
| What is irrigation? | A way of supplying water to an area of land. |
| What are canals? | Human made waterways. |
| What is a surplus? | Having more than what is needed. |
| Rural | Countryside areas. |
| Urban | City areas. |
| City-State | A city-state consist of a city and all of the countryside around it. |
| Empire | Land with different territories and peoples under a singular ruler. |
| Polytheism | The worship of many gods. |
| Priest | People who perform religious ceremonies. |
| Cuneiform | The world's first system of writing. |
| Scribe | A Scribe-also known as a writer would be hired to document business transactions or keep track of the items people bought or sold. |
| Epics | Long poems that tell the stories of heroes. |
| Architecture | The science of building. |
| Ziggurat | A pyramid shaped temple tower. |
| Monarch | A ruler of a kingdom or empire. |
| Hammurabi's Code | This was a set of 282 laws that dealt with every part of daily life |
| Alphabet | An alphabet is a set of letters that can be combined to form words. |
| Who wrote a legal code that covered most of daily life? | Hammurabi |
| Babylon became rich because it was located between the mediterranean Sea and what other large body of water? | Persian Gulf |
| The Calendar developed by the Sumerians was based on what? | The cycles of the moon |
| Although most Sumerians were farmers, many made metal, cloth, and pottery because they were skilled what? | Artisans |
| Sumerians who learned how to write were called what? | Scribes |
| The first Sumerian Kings were probably what? | War Heroes |
| Where did the first civilizations arise because of the farming conditions? | River Valleys |
| The fertile crescent is located between what two large bodies of water? | Mediterranean sea and Persian Gulf |
| Mesopotamia means what in greek? What are those two rivers? | "Between Rivers", Tigris and Euphrates |
| What was the famous story about a Mesopotamian king that may be the first written story in history? | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| What is one reason that city states were almost always at war with each other? | Farm land |
| How many laws were in Hammurabis code? | 282 |
| What was the first written language? | Cuneiform |
| King Nebuchadnezzar built the what for his wife | Hanging Gardens |
| What are the three great empires of the Fertile Crescent? | Assyrians, Babylonian, Chaldeans |
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