extra credit for 11/7/11
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What is the Fertile Crescent? Where is it? | The Fertile Crecesnt is a crescent-shaped land that consists of Mesopotamia and is a bridge between Africa and Eurasia.
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| What is Mesopotamia? What does this refer to and who named it? | Mesopotamia means "the land between the two rivers" and the Greeks named it.
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| Why is this area fertile? | The area is fertile because it has two rivers that flood and leave silt, or fertile soil behind.
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| What is silt and what does it have to do with the flooding? | Silt is a mixture of wet soil and tiny rocks. It is something floods leave behind.
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| What is division of labor? | The division of labor is a method Sumerians invented to catergorize different jobs, and divide them into skilled members of society.
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| What is cuneiform? How was it used? How did it start out? | Cunieform is a form of ancient writting and it was used to engrave the letters into clay. It started out when people started using a more advanced skills of writting as they evolved.
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| What is a scribe? List details of the job. | A scribe is a person who engraved writting into clay but especially wrote laws.
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| What is the Plow? | A large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn by a cow.
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