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Good Soil, water source, climate, location
What are the resources needed for civilization to develop?
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Helpful - Water source, trade, transportation Harmful - Flooding - not enough water
What harmful or helpful about the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
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More crops equals more food, trade, and location
What contributed to the growth of Sumer?
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City-States developed independently, which also made their beliefs independent.
Why might each city-state have its own god?
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They were the temple of the gods and the priests lived there.
What was the purpose of ziggurats?
200
Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia means land between two rivers, which ones are they referring to?
200
An independent city and the surrounding land.
What is a city-state?
200
Laws written by Ur-Nammu are an example of :
What is a law code?
200
Mesopotamian writing system.
What is Cuneiform?
200
Their location by the Mediterranean Sea.
What element made the Phoenicians better ocean navigators and traders?
300
It only had 22 symbols compared to the cuneiform symbols.
Why was the Phoenician alphabet easier and more efficient to use?
300
The spread of culture and their writing system.
What were some of the greatest impacts of the Phoenicians?
300
Phoenicians had few natural resources.
Why was trade with other cultures so important to the Phoenicians?
300
Akkadians and Sumerians sharing the use of cuneiform writing.
An example of a cultural trait is?
300
282 laws created to bring peace and joy to the people of Babylon.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
Belief in many gods.
What is poytheism?
400
plow, wheel, cuneiform writing
What are the main achievements of Sumer?
400
To bring a water supply to crops without having to carry by hand.
What are the advantages of irrigation?
400
ally
What is another name for a friend?
400
A permanent army of soldiers.
What is a standing army?
500
Assyrians
Who created the first set of paved road and the first locks and keys?
500
Every man is subject to the law no matter what their position is?
What is rule of law?
500
Bartering
What is trading one thing for another without money?
500
cultural trait
What is a common way of doing things in a culture called?
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Mondy paid to show loyalty to a stronger power.
What is a tribute?