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"Land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia
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a wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart
What is a charriot
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Writing utensils of Mesopotamia and Sumer
What is a styllus
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A group of many lands under one ruler
What is an empire
100
Mesopotamia Social Heirarchy
King Priests Merchants, Craftspeople, Traders Farmers, Laborers Slaves
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A temple shaped like a pyramid
What is a ziggurat
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Man-made way of watering crops
What is irrigation
200
Number of months in a year as set forth by the Sumerians
What is 12 or twelve
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I created the first set of laws, or "codes" that were displayed in public
Who is Hammurabi
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The number of years ago the first cities of Mesopotamia developed
What is about 12000 years ago
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The world's oldest known story
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh
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A city and its surrounding lands
What is city-state
300
The number that the number system created by the Mesopotamians was based on
What is 60
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A record keeper in ancient times
What is a scribe
300
Technology of the Hittites and Assyrians in battle
What are Iron weapons and charriots
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Form of mathematics based on a 360 degree circle
What is geometry
400
to have more than is needed
What is a surplus
400
This was used to mark ownership of something
What is a cylinder seal
400
We were closest to the gods
Who are preiests
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Assyrian Capitol
What is Nineveh
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Greatest of all Sumerian inventions
What is writing
500
Ancient form of Sumerian writing
What is cuneiform
500
Biggest reason people were able to have other jobs than farming
What is division of labor
500
To worship many gods
What is an polytheism
500
Helped spread the alphabet
What is trade
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