mesopotamia
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| show | the land between Tigris and Euphrates River
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| ? was the first city in the world | show 🗑
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| show | Iraq
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| show | desert
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| Why did the Mesopotamians need to practice irrigation? | show 🗑
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| What causes the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to flood? | show 🗑
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| Why couldn’t the Mesopotamians farm during the flood? | show 🗑
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| show | he melting snow brought fertile soil from the rivers
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| show | They could only plant crops along the sides of the rivers because that’s where the flood water dumped the fertile soil.
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| brought water from the river to the fields | show 🗑
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| prevented too much flood water from drowning the plants | show 🗑
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| show | Gates
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| used to water individual plants | show 🗑
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| show | reservoir
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| show | Because the soil was hard
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| What agricultural tool was invented by the Mesopotamians? What is its purpose? | show 🗑
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| Define artisan | show 🗑
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| show | Weaver, pottery, blacksmith
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| show | Since there was extra food, not everyone was needed to farm. So people could have other jobs.
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| In ancient Mesopotamia, how did people obtain items that they could not make? | show 🗑
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| show | To keep track of items that were traded (like receipts)
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| show | city that is it’s own country
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| show | Each city-state was its own country
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| show | mud brick – since they lived in a desert, there wasn’t much wood or stone
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| What is a ziggurat? | show 🗑
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| In what shape are ziggurats built? | show 🗑
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| What were ziggurats built out of? | show 🗑
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| show | The temple
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| show | Priests – Mesopotamians believed that a god lived inside a ziggurat, so only the priests could be in the god’s home.
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| show | Babylonian
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| A code is a collection of written | show 🗑
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| show | He had the laws read aloud on important days, such as festivals
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| show | To keep order in society
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| When talking about the Code of Hammurabi, why is the phrase “an eye for an eye” is often used? | show 🗑
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| Give three specific examples from the Code of Hammurabi to prove that the different social classes received different punishments for the same crime. | show 🗑
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| show | A temple tower
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| Why was a ziggurat built up high like a tower? | show 🗑
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| show | worship__ the __gods___ and to store _____food_________.
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| show | priests and kings
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| Only those people were allowed inside because the ziggurat was believed to be a home for the | show 🗑
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| show | A city that is its own country
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| What did all of the city-states in Mesopotamia have in common? | show 🗑
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| show | Government in which a king or queen rules
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| Why did the Mesopotamians obey the leader in a monarchy? | show 🗑
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| show | The oldest son of the king
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| show | A country and all the lands it has conquered
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| show | The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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| show | astronomers
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| show | Their calendar was based on the moon while ours is based on the sun
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| What invention involved in the planning of a day did the Babylonians create? | show 🗑
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| In what language did the Mesopotamians write? | show 🗑
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| What shape were the symbols in that writing system? | show 🗑
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| Who did people have to pay to do the reading and writing for them? | show 🗑
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| Why didn’t people do the reading and writing themselves? | show 🗑
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| show | stylus (sharpened reed)
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| What did they write on? | show 🗑
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