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20 Cards in this Set
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What is the land between two rivers called?
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Mesopotamia
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What is it called when you tame an animal?
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Domesticate
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What is a result of increased food supplies?
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Specialization
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An important tool invented by the cro-
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axe
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What was the temple at the center if each sumerian city called?
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A ziggurat
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What was made up of the city and farmland around it?
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A city-state
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What did the sumerians think were alive?
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The fources of nature
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What is the oldest civilization we know of?
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The Sumerian
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About how many sumerian gods were there?
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Over 3,000
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Why did the sumerians believe the were created?
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To do their gods work
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What is the sumerian writing called?
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Coneiform
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What did the sumerians believe would happen to them if there gods were not pleased?
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There crops would not grow
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Who ran the sumerian schools?
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Priests
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Where did the sumerians get the water to irregate their crops?
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The canals
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What did the sumerians poke holes in to get the water to run into the canals?
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Levees
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Who studies the remains of past human life?
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Archaeolgists
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What are things made by people called?
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Artifacts
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What did the chinese believe the universe use to be?
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An egg
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What is a folktale that helps explain the past?
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Legends
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What is a group of people of about thirty called?
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Bands
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