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What is the name of the mesopotamian buildings?
What were they used for? |
Ziggurat temples for the gods
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What are 2 ancient mesopotamian cities?
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Ur and Babylon
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What is the famous Sumerian text?
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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What is Sumerian writing called?
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Cuneiform
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Name 3 Sumerian accomplishments
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-wheeled vehicles
-number system based on 60 -time system and Geometry -Bronze |
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What are 3 regions of ancient Mesopotamia?
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Sumer Akkad and Assyria
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What is Theocracy?
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Rule by religious authority?
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What is the name of the laws established in the Babylonian Empire?
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Hammurabi's code
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What are the main egyptian gods?
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Amon-Re, Anubis, Osiris, Isis, Horus
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Who was the last pharaoh of Egypt?
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Cleopatra VII
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What was ancient egyptian writing?
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Hieroglyphics
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What are the Egyptian achievements?
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365 day calendar
medical knowledge advanced mathematics |
