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What does "Mesopotamia" mean?
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The land between the rivers.
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What 2 rivers it between (present day Iraq)?
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The Tigris and Euphrates.
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What is the name of the "fertile arc" of land from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, through Mesopotamia, to the Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)?
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Fertile Crescent.
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What are the 2 major cities in Mesopotamia?
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Ur and Uruk.
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What was the most important building in the city state (used for worshiping Gods and Goddesses?
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A Ziggurat.
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What were the three social groups?
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Nobles, commoners, and slaves.
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Which great emperor "codified and collected the laws of his region and wrote them down for all to see?
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Hammurabi.
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Name the first written law of the Babylonian Empire.
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Hammurabi's Code.d
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What was the name of the first written language (who's name means wedge shaped writing)?
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Cuneiform.
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What were some of the "contributions" the Mesopotamian's had?
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Wheeled vehicles, potter's wheel, the first to make bronze, and invented a # system based on 60.
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