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| show | domestication
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| show | the land between the rivers
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| show | Euphrates and Tigris
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| Describe the process of the soil becoming fertile in this desert region. | show 🗑
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| Describe a levee and explain its purpose. | show 🗑
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| What did the Sumerians invent to make planting the crops easier and more efficient? | show 🗑
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| Describe the ziggurat. | show 🗑
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| show | They used mud and shaped them into bricks. Then lay them out in the sun to bake. They become mud bricks
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| What type of cloth did they have available for making clothing? | show 🗑
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| What were the two ways of becoming a slave (2)? | show 🗑
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| show | The statues keep on praying while the people go about their daily chores
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| show | the Gods
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| show | makes judgements when people have arguments, controls trade with other cities, decides who gets to farm the fields, makes sure that gods temples are in good repair, and makes sure that all the right offerings are made
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| show | Work offices and storage for grain
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| show | sheep, bags of grain, livestock, fish, funerals
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| What is "burden" and how was it paid? | show 🗑
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| What expenses do the taxes in Sumer cover (2)? | show 🗑
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| Do the taxes we pay in the United States today cover the same expenses as the taxes the Sumerians paid? Explain your answer and give examples and details to support your response. | show 🗑
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| show | calendars
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| What are three of the inventions of the Sumerians (3)? | show 🗑
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| Why did writing first begin? | show 🗑
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| show | It was made up of 1,200 different characters. Characters represented such things as names, physical objects , numbers
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| What was their new system of writing called? | show 🗑
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| show | stylus and clay tablet
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| What is the school called where students learned to write? | show 🗑
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| show | Years of training
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| show | scribe
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| What are some of the items that they wrote down (3)? | show 🗑
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| What does the word cuneiform mean? | show 🗑
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| What are stories about deities (gods and goddesses) called? | show 🗑
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| Why do the Sumerians believe the gods created humans? | show 🗑
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| What is a very long story (usually in poetic form) called? | show 🗑
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| show | 12
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| show | Sometime around 2000 B.C.
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| show | A god and a human
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| What was Gilgamesh's greatest fear? | show 🗑
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| When did Sumerians invent cuneiform? | show 🗑
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| show | 3000 B.C.
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| show | 2340 B.C.
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| show | 1792 B.C.
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| Chaldean and Medes caputured Nineveh | show 🗑
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| show | 900 B.C.
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| Persians recognized that the Chaldeans had lost their strength and leadership. Captured Babylon and Mesopotamia part of their empire | show 🗑
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| show | a group of many different lands under one ruler
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| Who was Sargon? | show 🗑
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| Who formed the worlds first empire? | show 🗑
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| Who was Hammarabi? | show 🗑
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| What is silt? | show 🗑
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| What is irrigation? | show 🗑
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| surpluses | show 🗑
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| The flooded rivers of Mesopotamia carried small particles of rich soil called | show 🗑
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| An Artisan | show 🗑
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| show | ziggurat
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| show | a member of the lower class
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| show | Reeds
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| show | The worlds oldest known story
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| show | the wheel
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| What does Sharrum-kin mean? | show 🗑
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| show | is the most complete collection of Babylonian law that remains today. This set of laws is among the oldest in the world
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| show | Louvre Museum in Paris, France
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| A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels | show 🗑
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| having to do with soldiers, weapons, or war | show 🗑
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| a person who studies planets and stars | show 🗑
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| show | tribute
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| a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler | show 🗑
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| a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire | show 🗑
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| a set of official laws | show 🗑
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| Chaldeans believed that honoring ----------- would bring crops and peace to their empire | show 🗑
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| Merchants | show 🗑
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| Perians | show 🗑
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| The Assyrian army was made up of infantry, cavalry, and | show 🗑
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| show | Ashurbanipal
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| The ruler of Akkad who formed the worlds first empire was | show 🗑
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| show | Nebuchadnezzar
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| show | Assyrian
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| show | Sargon
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| Hammurabi's law code influenced later law codes, including | show 🗑
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| Assyrian kings divided their empire into political districts called | show 🗑
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| One of the key factors in the success of the Assyrian army was their use --------weapons | show 🗑
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| Strongly influenced the Assyrians | show 🗑
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| show | Nineveh
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| show | Neebuchadnezzar
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| show | Babylonians
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| show | artisans
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