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Where was Mesopotamia?
In Between the Syrian Desert and the Taurus Mountains,also between two rivers.
What does urban and rural mean?
Urban means city areas,And rural areas are countryside.
What was Cuneiform?
The world’s first writing system.
Who was a brilliant war leader,can govern a huge empire and had a code.?
Hammurabi.
What is Silt?
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is Sargon’s legend?
According to legend,A gardener found a baby floating in a basket on a river and raised him as his own child.
Sumerian writing developed from early symbols called ----------.
Pictographs.
Several other --------- developed in and around the Fertile Crescent.
Civilizations.
What did the civilization in Mesopotamia do to stop flooding?
They built canals.
One of Uruk’s kings,Known as ------------,Became a legendary figure in Sumerian Literature.
Gilgamesh.
The Sumerians were the first people in Mesopotamia to build large temples called -----------.Fill in the blank.
Ziggurats.
What region in the southwest did the Assyrian Empire include?
Egypt.
What time did Mesopotamian villages turn into cities?
Between 3000 B.C and 4000 B.C.
Who established the first empire?
Sargon.
Most Sumerian rulers lived in large -------.Most people,however,lived in smaller,one-story ---------.Fill in the Blanks.
Palaces.Houses.
The ---------- army was the most powerful fighting force the world has ever seen.
Assyrian.
What did people do after getting a lot of food in Mesopotamia cities and villages?
Started to focus on other jobs that needed to be done.
What is Polytheism?
The Worship of many gods.
This stringed musical instrument is called a --------.It features a cow’s head and is made with silver decorated with shell and stone. Fill in the Blank.
A Lyre.
What was Phoenicia’s main cities?
Byblos,Sidon,and Tyre.