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What is Mesopotamia?
The most important civilizations to evolve in the Fertile Crescent were in an area called_______.
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What is polytheistic?
The people of Sumer worshiped many gods.
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Who was Hammurabi?
He was famous for establishing his code of 282 laws that dealt with every aspect of daily life.
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What were gold, silver, copper, lumber and precious stones?
Traders in Sumer traveled to faraway places to exchange grain for a variety of natural resources.
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How did the Mesopotamians connect heaven and earth?
The zigguarat served as a staircase or ladder for what purpose?
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What is silt?
The banks of Tigris and Euphrates grew higher than the plains on either side because of this material.
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Who were the priests?
This group of people occupied a high level in Sumer's social hierarchy, the division of society by rank or class.
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What is big man?
In Sumerian city-states leaders who acted like kinds were called lugals. In Sumerian lugals means _____________.
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What is upper class?
In Sumer, this group was mostly made up of priests, government officials, and very wealthy landowners.
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What are reeds and mud?
The rivers of the Fertile Crescent supplied resources for building homes and boats.
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What is an hour divided by 60 minutes and a minute devided by 60 seconds?
Mesopotamians invented instruments to measure time by dividing ___________________.
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How did the gods descend from heaven?
At the top of the ziggurat was a second shrine designed to welcome the god or goddess.
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What are soldiers armed with bows and arrows?
Sargon created a successful military power using this strategy.
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What are animals, plants, and minerals to produce healing drugs? What are milk, turtle shells, figs and salt? (Name two items for correct answer.)
The Sumerians made advances in medicine. They used ingredients from many sources.
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What is sun-dried brick?
Babylon was built almost completely of this material.
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What is a war chariot?
This object turned around on the top of the wall surrounding Babyon.
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Who was Marduk?
The ziggurat loomed over the city of Babylon and was the temple for the official state god.
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Who were the Sumerians?
This civilization rebuilt its strength and conquered the rest of Mesopotamia after the Akkadians.
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What is the middle class?
In Sumer this group of people was mainly made up of farmers, craftsmen, traders, scribes and all kinds of laborers.
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What is sticking hundreds of colored cones into the wall?
5,000 year old cone mosaics covered temple pillars and walls in the ancient city of Uruk. The builders made patterns by __________.
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What is the Persian Empire?
Before the Greeks settled around Ephesus in Turkey the area was under the rule of this empire.
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What is Topeth?
Phoenicians sacrificed people to the gods at this place.
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What is a city-state?
The basic political unit of Sumer combined two parts that consisted of a city and the countryside around it.
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What is pickled grasshoppers served on skewers?
A special delicacy was this food.
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What is 11 miles long by 79 feet thick?
The outer wall of Nebuchadnezzar II's new city of Babylon measured ______________.
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