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20 Cards in this Set
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a complex society |
civilization |
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a group of many different lands under one ruler |
empire |
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using walls, waterways, and ditches to bring water to crops |
irragation |
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one of the boundaries of Mesopotamia |
Tigris River |
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the Sumerian form of writing |
cuneiform |
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a record keeper |
scribe |
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a city and the land around it that had its own government |
city-state |
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skilled worker who mad metal products, cloth, or pottery |
artisan |
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Ziggurat |
"mountain of the god' or "hill of heaven" |
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3 inventions by the Sumerians |
writing, sail boat, wagon wheel |
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6 basic characteristics of a civilization |
cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system |
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Mesopotamia located between what two rivers |
Euphrates and Tigris |
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Farmers did what in Mesopotamia to control water problems and so they could grow crops |
dams and channels |
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The name of the region formed in the southern Mesopotamia by 3000 B.C. |
Sumer |
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why did Sumerians city-states often go to war with one another |
to gain glory and too control more territory |
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what were the three social classes that divided the people in Sumer |
Higher Class : King priest Middle Class : Artisans Lower Class : Enslaved People |
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the name of the wedge-shaped writing form developed by the Sumerians |
cuneiform |
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three Sumerian inventions that made life easier for people |
writing, mathematics, law |
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The name of the king of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia in 2340 B.C |
Hummarabi |
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what was Hammurabi best known for |
taking people's land |
