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20 Cards in this Set
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What are Levees?
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Raised areas of soil
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Sumerian writing was called
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cuneiform
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One of the most famous king-preist was
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Gilgamesh
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Hereditart means...
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passsed down from parent to child
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what dose ziggurat mean?
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it means mountian god or hill of heaven
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about how meny sumerain gods were there
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about 3,000
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what dose artsans mean?
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it means skilled workers
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Sumerians were the first ____________ in this area of the wourld
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city-buliders
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What did sumerians grow?
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Wheat,sesame, flax, and date plams
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they use what to build homes
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mud and chrushed reeds to make bricks
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who was sargon
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a ruler
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who created the worlds first empire
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sargon did
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were would a scribe live?
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army or temple
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what dose mesopataima mean?
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the land between two rivers
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sumerians
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the earlest people alive
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smuerians had
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black hair and were short
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summerians controled what?
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the twin rivers
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what did they grow?
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the grew wheat seseme and dates
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what did they use to make bricks?
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mud, reeds
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what was a grate city
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the city of abraham
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