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18 Cards in this Set
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What does Mesopotamia mean? |
Area between the Tigris and Euphrates river. |
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What were the environmental problems? |
Floods, no natural barriers, limited natural resources. |
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How where the environmental problems solved? |
Walls were built for protection,irrigation |
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What was used for protection? |
Walls were built to protect from invaders |
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Irrigation |
The watering of land for agricultural purposes(done through digging canals to water soil) |
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City State |
A city and the area around it with an independent government |
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Why Did Cities Develop? |
To settle existence and work together to create solutions for environmental challenges and have protection. |
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What Are The Characteristics Of Civilization? |
Agriculture, food storage, specialize |
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What are advanced cities? |
Center of trade for a large area |
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Ziggurats |
a place of worship,city hall, and center of trade |
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Road to civilization |
- Hunter gatherers - Grow your own food/population grows - Technology advances/less people have to work - Surplus food/trading begins - Farmers use grain to trade for other services - People get skilled in other things - Markets form to trade - Grain was used to trade then replaced by money |
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Beer |
Beer was luxurious to have |
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What is complex institution? |
Institutions are mechanism of social ordercoordinate or constrain |
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Record Keeping |
- Someone that keeps track of everything - How writing develops |
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What are scribes? |
-Professional record keepers -Cuneiform alphabet (triangles) |
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Culture |
-Stories and poetry served as a record of a culture’s values, beliefs, and myths -Among the earliest known literature |
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What were advanced technologies? |
-The wheel/made trading more efficient -The seeder plow/allows you to seed while you plow/more food -Medicine/very strange they didn't know what they were doing -Bronze/strong medal used to make weapons |
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Where is Mesopotamia located? |
Middle east Fertile crescent |
