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20 Cards in this Set
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What is a word that characterizes the soil of the fertle crescant |
Rich |
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How did the sumeirian development of Bronze help them AS a society |
Allowed them to make stronger weapons |
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Who were the first Kings in the sumerian civilization |
Military leaders |
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Phoencia didn't have its own supply of ivory so it traded for ivory with other regions that makes Ivory an ________ for the Phoenicians |
Import |
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What patterns did the laws in hammurabis code follow |
Offensense, punishment |
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Assyrians used........ To build stronger weapons |
Iron |
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What geographic features were ectremly important to summerian farming |
Tigris and euphrates rivers |
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The phoenician Alphabet was based on |
Sounds |
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Mesopotamien relief Skulpture is often found on a standing carved stone slab or piller called a |
Stele |
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........... Increased the amout of Farmland by bringing water to the feild |
Irrigation |
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What was the role of preist in the sumerian civilization |
Commuticate with gods |
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How did the sailor's use the notth star help the phonician trade |
It helped them guide there voyoges more accurtly |
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The idea that everyone must obey law including powerful politiction is found hammarubis code |
Rule of law |
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Sargon conqured and controlled sumerian cit-states gradullay creating an |
Empire |
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The epic gilgamesh was written entirely in... .......... On clay tabelets |
Cuniform |
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Why did assyriens become so skilled at fighting after the Fall of babylon |
They had fought so many invadors |
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Cunniform wheeled carts and boat sails were all used by summerians. What was not |
Alphabet |
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How did Cyrus the great treatment of the jews of Jerusalem differ from that of nebuchadnezzer |
Cyrus allowed the jews to live in Jerusalem; neb banished them |
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What City became the center of hammurubis metopatain empire |
Babylon |
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How did a steady food supply affect the development of sumerian cities |
It allowed them to stay in one place |
