Mesopotamia
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| show | Tigris and Euphrates
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| Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means | show 🗑
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| show | hot and dry
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| show | they built leeves to control the floods and they also built different types of irrigation systems
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| show | hot dry climate was mixed with seasonal flooding
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| show | Wheat, barley, sesame and flax
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| show | area ; civilization
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| show | city - states
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| show | religion, laws, language and governement
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| show | Sumeria, Assyrai, Babylon and Iraq
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| show | Sumerians
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| show | To take advantage of the fertile soil
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| Why were some Sumerians able to become tradesman, merchants, and artisans? | show 🗑
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| What did the Sumerians call their country? | show 🗑
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| What important invention have the Sumerians been given credit for? | show 🗑
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| Why did the Sumerians invent the written language? | show 🗑
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| show | pictures called pictographs
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| What were professional writers called? | show 🗑
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| show | Clay tablets with a stylus
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| Eventually, the pictures were replaced by shapes and lines. What was this type of writing called? | show 🗑
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| What 5 other items did the Sumerians invent? | show 🗑
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| The Sumerian number system was based on what number? | show 🗑
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| We still use the Sumerians system of measuring _____, which is also based on the number ___. | show 🗑
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| Between 3500 and 2000 B.C. the Sumerians were living in large villages, but when they became move prosperous (rich) the villages developed into _________city-states. | show 🗑
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| show | 1. there was no building stone
2. there was very little timber in Sumer
3. the rivers were a great source for mud
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| show | priests, wealthy and merchants
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| Religion was important to the Sumerians, and in the center of each city-state was a temple called a _______. | show 🗑
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| show | pyramids ; flat
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| show | gods; priests ; power; kings
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| What was the one great disadvantage of living in Mesopotamia? | show 🗑
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| show | Akkadians
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| show | Semitic ; Arabic ; Hebrew
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| show | where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were close together
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| show | Sumarians
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| What eventually happened to Sumeria? | show 🗑
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