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20 Cards in this Set
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What was the Sumerians form of writing called?
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Cueniform.
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Where did the Sumerians live?
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Mesopotamia.
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What does Mesopotamia mean?
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The land between 2 rivers.
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What rivers surround Mesopotamia?
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The Tigris and Euophrates rivers.
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What 2 things did Sumerians use to write with?
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Wet clay and a stylus.
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Other than writing, what was the Sumerians best invention?
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The wheel.
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What did Egyptians use for their writing?
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The phonetic alphabet.
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What did the Egyptians use before the phonetic alphabet?
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Hieroglyphics.
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About how much percent of the world can read and write?
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85%
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Why did Sumerians creat symbols?
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To keep track of goats, sheep, cattle, and land.
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How long ago was writing invented?
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5,000 years ago.
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about how many speaking languages are there?
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over 10,000.
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After wet clay, what was used to write on?
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papyrus.
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What were the tablets that Sumerians wrote on called?
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scrolls.
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Around how long did most scrolls get?
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60 feet long.
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How was writing so powerful?
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propaganda, and if a lie seemed real, people would think it is the truth.
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in what century were computers, or "the devils work' invented?
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15th century.
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What did cueniform mainly consist of?
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arrows.
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What happened to the Sumerians symbols over time?
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they made more sense and got more sophisticated.
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Who was the group of people that started the revolution of writing?
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The Sumerians.
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