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fertile cresent facts

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Nomadic people were people who?   moved from place to place and hunted and gathered  
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how was the behavior of nomads regulated?   unwritten customs  
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how did ancient people progress in social organization?   clans to villages to city-states to empires  
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the first civilizations developed near these two rivers.   Tigris and Euphrates.  
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why did they develop near the rivers?   flooding left silt that made the land good for farming  
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how did farmers cope with flooding   irrigation and flood control  
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what was the name of the place that gave birth to ancient civilizations   Mesopotamia  
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what do all civilizations need to survive   resources  
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what was the first civilization   sumer  
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what are the five key elements   government,religion,public works,social classes/jobs, writing  
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meaning of polytheistic   many gods  
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how did Hebrews differ   one god  
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most important religious duty   keep gods happy  
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what were temples called   ziggurat  
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what was on top of the ziggurat   a shrine to chief god or goddess  
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why did they build large palaces   to make people believe the strength and power of the rulers and gods  
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what was the claim ancient rulers had to claim authority   the will of the gods  
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what does it mean when we say rulers in ancient world were hereditary leaders   leadership passed from father to son  
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what caused conflicts   they competed for control of land and water  
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what developed as a result of the need to control rivers,collect taxes, and build public works.   the first centralized governments  
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list three groups of people who developed in the fertile crescent   Sumerians,medes, Persians,Hittites  
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what tasks did the first organized governments perform   write laws,collect taxes, provide food supply, and maintain defense  
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why were first laws written   to regulate the behavior of people who were now strangers to one another cities  
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in the ancient world who was trained to read and write   scribe  
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what did ancient people invent to record grain harvests and keep accurate records of the seasons   writing  
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how did ancient rulers use public works to ensure the cities food supplies?   built irrigation systems, roads, and bridges and kept records of harvests  
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how did they uses public works to defend themselves   built city walls around the city to protect it from attack  
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how did cities change the way people worked   people specialized in jobs for the first time  
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why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations   surpluses in food meant that not everyone had to search for food  
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ranking people according to their jobs led to this   the development of the first social classes  
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