Mesopotamia
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| Mesopotamia is between what two rivers? | show 🗑
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| show | between two rivers
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| What was the climate like in Mesopotamia | show 🗑
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| How did farmers in ancient Mesopotamia deal with the farming problem? | show 🗑
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| What made farming a challenge in Mesopotamia? | show 🗑
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| What four products were ancient Mesopotamians able to grow once they had their flooding under control? | show 🗑
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| show | area ; civilization
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| Mesopotamia was composed of several independent ______-______. | show 🗑
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| Each of these city - states had their own _____,_____,_____, and _______. | show 🗑
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| Some of the cultures that have existed in the areas know as Mesopotamia were ___,___, ___ and ____. | show 🗑
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| Who were the first people to live in Mesopotamia? | show 🗑
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| show | To take advantage of the fertile soil
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| show | Because they had a stable food supply and not everyone was needed to farm, hunt or fish
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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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| show | so that they could keep records
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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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| show | wheel, water clock, 12 month calendar, plow and sailboat
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| The Sumerian number system was based on what number? | show 🗑
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| show | time ; 60
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| show | self - governing
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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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| What 3 types of people lived in two - story homes? | show 🗑
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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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| show | the land didn't provide any natural protection
from invaders
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| show | Akkadians
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| The Akkadians were Semitic because they spoke a _____language. This language is similiar to the languages of _____ and _______. | show 🗑
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| Where did the Akkadians form their own country? | show 🗑
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| Whose culture did the Akkadians mostly adopt? | show 🗑
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| What eventually happened to Sumeria? | show 🗑
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