6th grade chapter 4 The Mesopotamians
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The area in S.W. Asia known as the Fertile Crescent is located between what two large bodies of water? | show 🗑
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show | Tigris and Euphrates
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Name two things the Tigris and Euphrates rivers provided the people of ancient Mesopotamia. | show 🗑
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show | Sumer
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show | own king, own army, own government, own gods/goddesses
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show | S.W. Asia
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show | surrounded by mountains and deserts.
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show | ziggurats
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List the 3 "great empires" of the Fertile Crescent | show 🗑
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What was the name of the ancient system of writing developed in ancient Mesopotamia? | show 🗑
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show | To keep records, or to keep track of things.
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show | taxes, births and deaths, marriages, trades, animals...
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show | Scratch cuneiform symbols into wet clay tablets with a sharp reed.
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Who was the leader of the Babylonian Empire that is famous for his "code of laws"? | show 🗑
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Why were Hammurabi's code of laws so important? | show 🗑
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show | scribe
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____________ is a belief in many gods? | show 🗑
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show | city-state
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show | fertile soil, central location on trade routes, Tigris & Euphrates rivers.
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show | Lighthouse at Alexandria, Statue of Zeus, Pyramids, Hanging Gardens, Mauseleum, Temple at Artimis, Colossus of Rhodes
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show | Punish should be similar to the crime.
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Hammurabi's "code of laws" contained how many laws? | show 🗑
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show | wealth, fighting over river water.
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The people of Mesopotamia were polytheistic. | show 🗑
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show | water for irrigation, and drinking, clay for building
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show | wiped out whole villages, killed people and animals, wiped out crops...
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show | travel and trade
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show | Nebuchadnezzar
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If Cuneiform first developed around 3100 B.C., how many years ago was that? | show 🗑
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show | empire
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Capital of the Babylonian Empire? | show 🗑
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show | Epic of Gilgamesh
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An extra supply of something? | show 🗑
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Small particles of soil left by the rivers each year as they flooded? | show 🗑
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show | irrigation
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show | Epic
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show | wheel, sailboats, pottery wheel, written language (cuneiform), irrigation canals, bronze, new plow...
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show | Nineveh
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show | Babylon
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What was the new invention that made the Assyrians almost unbeatable in battle? | show 🗑
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Put these events in chronological order: specialization, surplus, new technology, and cities & towns | show 🗑
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show | upper: kings, govt. officials, warriors, & priests Middle: farmers, fishermen, merchants and artisans Lower: slaves
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show | Egypt, India or China
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show | land and water
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Tell me 2 reasons why the Assyrians were so feared in battle? | show 🗑
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show | living in the countryside.
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urban | show 🗑
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show | people who performed religious ceremonies
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monarch | show 🗑
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show | a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle.
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show | a set of letter s that can be combined to form words
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