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are found in Southwest Asia - they start in mountains of todayʼs Turkey, Kurdistan - flow southeast through todayʼs Iraq to Persian Gulf
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
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canals that carried water from rivers to fields
What is Irrigation Canals
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Where did the world's first civilization develop?
What is Sumer
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A belief in many gods, goddesses
What is Polytheism
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A mixture of copper, tin
What is Bronze
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Land between the Rivers
What is Mesopotamia
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was used to make wedge-shaped markings in clay
What is a Stylus
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Advanced Cities, Specialized Workers, Complex Institutions, Record Keeping and Advanced Technology are elements of what?
What is a Civilization
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Believed souls of dead went to land of no return—gloomy underworld
What is an Unhappy afterlife
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used to transport,move goods or to make pottery faster
What is a wheel
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flat land bordering banks that contains silt deposited by overflowing rivers
What is a floodplain
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is something that is found in the environment that is useful to people
What is a Resource
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self-ruled community including city and nearby farmlands
What is a City-State
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the highest-ranked leader of group in later Sumer
What is a King
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The number system of the mesopotamians was based on what number?
What is 60
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hot summers, with less than 10 inches of annual rainfall
What is Semi-Arid Climate
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means more than they needed for themselves
What is Surplus
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The largest, most important building in a Sumerian city
What is a Temple
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The earliest leaders in Sumer
What is a priest
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A form of writing using Pictures
What is Pictographs
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period without enough rain and snowfall
What is Drought
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an advanced form of culture
What is Civilization
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Sumerian temples first built around 2200 B.C. were called what?
What is a Ziggurat
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digging sticks pulled or pushed by people, animals to break up soil for easier planting
What is a Plow
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wedge-shaped symbolic writing was called
What is cuneiform
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