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20 Cards in this Set
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What type of writing did theSumeriansuse?
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Cuniform
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What was invented 5000 years ago?
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Writing
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What was cunieform writing madeof?
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Symbols
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What did the Sumerians use writing for at first?
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To keep track of cattl.
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What doesthe word Mestopotamia mean?
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The land in-between rivers.
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What is a scribe?
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A person who writeswritten documents of manuscipts and works for priests.
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Whatis Mestopotamia known as know?
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Iraq
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What two rivers surround Mestopotamia?
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The Tigris and the Euphrates.
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Where were the doors of Sumerians houses located?
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On the roof.
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Who talked to the gods?
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The priests.
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Why did all people move to mesopotamia?
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They had newideas.
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What was a ziggurat?
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A temple were the preist would pray to the gods and find out what they wanted.
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This class included priests, rulers, and merchants.
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The rich class or theupper class.
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How many stories did an upper class househave?
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2
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How many stairs did a ziggurat have?
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Three hundred and sixtyfive.
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Who ruled the first city-states?
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Chiefs.
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What does polytheism mean?
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Believing in more thanonegodin a religion.
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What does monotheism mean?
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Believing in one god in a reilgion.
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What were early houses made of?
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Bricks and clay.
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What surrouned the ziggurat's.
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Courtyards.
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