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Earlier Mesopotamia
Later Mesopotamia
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Religion and Family Life
City-States
100
What is a priest-king?
What is a Sumerian government and religious leader
100
Sargon 1 created the world's first what?
What is Empire.
100
The Sumerians were the first people to write down their what?
What is their laws.
100
What is a scribe?
What is a Sumerian writer.
100
What is a city-state?
What is a city and the farmland around it.
200
What rivers where the earliest civilization settled on?
What is Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
200
What is culture?
What is the way of life.
200
The Sumerians developed the 1st known what?
What is Civilization.
200
What was at the center of each Sumerian city.
What is a Ziggurat.
200
What are artisans?
What are skilled workers.
300
What are levees?
What is a raised area of soil.
300
Hammurabi was the king of where?
What is Babylon.
300
What number was their number system bassed on?
What is 60.
300
What was Sumerian writing called?
What is cuneiform.
300
Behind the houses of the rich were the houses of the_____.
What is the middle class houses.
400
Who were the people that settled in Southern Mesopotamia?
What is Sumerians.
400
How many years did Hammurabi rule for?
What is more than 40 years.
400
The Mesopotamians developed a 12 month what?
What is calendar
400
How many gods did they believe there were?
What is over 3000.
400
Who were the lower class made up of?
What are farmers and unskilled workers.
500
What crops did the Sumerians grow
What is barley and wheat.
500
What did Babylonian traders pay with?
What is gold and silver.
500
What was one of the Sumerian inventions
What is the wheel, the plow, or the sailboat.
500
Around the Ziggurats are ______.
What are courts
500
What did city-states fight over?
What is boundary lines, and to prove which city-state is stronger.