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20 Cards in this Set
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What does Mesopotamia mean
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The land between the two rivers
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What is cuneiform
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The of writing that the Sumerians use
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What types of classes were there
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rich, lower, and middle
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What was the first civilization
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Sumer
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What was a Sumerian temple called
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Ziggurat
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How many Sumerian gods were there
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more than 3,000
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What country is Mesopotamia today
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Iraq
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What did the Sumerians look like
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Short, stocky, blackhaired people
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What civilization first invented writing
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the Sumerians
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What did they do to hold back the flooding from the rivers
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They built levees
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What was the chief crop of the Sumerians
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Barley
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What did the Sumerians do when the population got bigger
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They built cities
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What did they do to build houses
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They made bricks
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What were the bricks made of
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Mud and crushed reed
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What is the names of the two rivers
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Tigris and Euphrates
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What are artisans
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skilled workers
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What is a city-state
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It was a city that had farmland around it
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What is a priest-king
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It was a priest that was also
called a king because he was incharge of city-states |
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Who was the friend of Gilgamesh
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Enkidu
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Who ran the schools
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priests
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