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What two rivers is Mesopotamia in the middle of?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates River?
Who was second on the social pyramid?
Priests and Nobles.
What currency did Sumerians use?
Barley?
Why is silt helpful to Mesopotamians?
Silt is helpful to Mesopotamians because it helps crops grow, which leads to population growth as well.
3rd?
Merchants, traders, crafts people.
What was the first form of writing?
cuneiform?
What did irrigation lead to?
Irrigation leads to surplus for crops.
4th?
90% of pop. were farmers+ laborers.
What was the epic of Gilgamesh?
It was a 3000 line poem with heros. (demigods)
Where does Fertile Crescent lead.
The Fertile Crescent leads to the Nile River starting at the Persian Gulf to the Med. Sea.
5th?
Slaves were last on the social pyramid.
What did Sumerians use to write?
A Stylus
Who was on top of the social pyramid?
Kings and Queens were on the top of the social pyramid.
What word did the Sumerians use for praising many gods?
Sumerians were polystheistic.
What was a temple that was used to worship the gods called?
A ziggurat.