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What is Tigris and Euphrates River?
Why did city-states fight with each other for land?
Each wanted to have enough farmland to grow food
world's 1st writing system
What was the resource for which Phoenicia was known?
Cedar trees
Can Sumerian women be important religious leaders?
Yes. What are priestesses?
different people under a single ruler
What is empire?
What was the Sumerian math system based on?
What is the number 60?
Why did Mesopotamia build canals?
What is to control the river's flow?
Who served as the link between the gods?
What are priests?
Which army defeated all the city-states of Sumer and conquered northern Mesopotamia?
What is Sargon's army? What is the Akkadian army?
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wheeled, horse drawn battle cart
What is a chariot?
a way of supplying water to an area
What is irrigation?
set of letters that form a word
What is alphabet?
Define Fertile Crescent
What is a large arc of farmland?
define polythesim
What is the worship of many gods?
What did Sargon's empire have in common with other Mesopotamian city-states?
What did both Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar do?
They both ruled and built up Babylon
Which king became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature?
Who is Gilgamesh?
What determined the amount of land controlled by the city-states?
What is a city-state's military strength?
division of society by rank
What is social hierarchy?
What was the relationship between trade and the spread of the Phoenician alphabet?
The alphabet spread along their trade routes
What was the reason that ziggurats were tall?
To honor the gods
What technology did the. Hittites and Assyrians use in the battle?
What are iron weapons and chariots?
epics