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20 Cards in this Set
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who were the people to settle in southern Mesopotamia?
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the Surimerians
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what was the area of Mesoptamia that the Sumerians lived in called?????
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Sumer
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At what time did the Sumerians settle in Sumer?
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3500 b.C.
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Who was Sargon 1?
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he was a ruler from an area in nourthern Mesoptamia.
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At what time did the power of Sumer start to fade????
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2400 bc
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what did Sargon 1 create after moving his armies to Sumer?
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The first empire
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How did Sargon 1 create the first empire?
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he conquered Sumer thus joing the to togther
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what was the launage of the people when Sargon 1 was ruling?
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Akkadian
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what happened when Sargon 1 died?
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The empire fell
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what happened after Sargon 1 died and the empire fell??
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The seprate city-states began to rise
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who built cities of their own???
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The Amorites
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when did the Amorites build their own cities?
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About 1800 B.C.
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where did the Amorites build their cities???
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In the Tigris-Euphrates
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what was a well known city that the Amorites built????
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Babylon
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who was the king of Babylon????
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Hammurabi
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What city-states did Hammurabi conquer?
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Akkad and Sumer
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What did the great conquer of akkad and sumer do for Hammurabi????
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It made him the ruler of the empire
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what is culture?
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a way of life
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what happened to the gods names after Hammurabi became ruler?
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they got Babylonian names
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what did Hammurabi do to the canals?
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He built better ones
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