2.1

Question 1

First civilization developed in

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Sumer

Question 2

When was Sumer developed

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5,000 years ago

Question 3

Tigris-Euphrates Valley lies in

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Fertile Crescent

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Greeks named Tigris-Euphrates Valley

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Mesopotamia

Question 5

Mesopotamia means

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Between rivers

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First Civilization made when + where

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3300 B.C. in south western Mesopotamia

Question 7

Tigris-Euphrates valley flows through

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Turkey - Iraq - Persian Gulf

Question 8

What caused flood damage

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Melting of snow + overflowing of rivers

Question 9

What made the land fertile and increased food supply even after flood

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Silt from floodwaters

Question 10

The Fertile Crescent gave Access to these 3 continents

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Asia, Africa, Europe

Question 11

-people & ideas a met & mingled at ….

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Crossoads

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How did Groups affect the Fertile Crescent when they arrived

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They contributed 2 its history

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civilization in Mesopotamia depended on

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The Control of the Tigris-Euphrates

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hero during destrutive flood

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 15

Famine was caused by

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Floods, droughts, hot winds

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Together Farmers built ___

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Dikes, damns, irrigation systems

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Construction of a complex irrigation system required and brought forth a

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Well run government

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Who organized constructions

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Priest and royal offices

Question 19

What factors helped Sumer thrive

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Government, religion, hierarchy

Question 20

What where Sumerian city-states

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Sumerian cites and the surrounding land

Question 21

The Sumerians had few natural resources so they used __ & __ as the building block of many things

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Clay and water bricks

Question 22

Sumerian cities had broad avenue for their

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Large parades

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Large Sumerian temples that reached the sky

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Ziggurats

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Statues of gods and goddesses

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Shrines

Question 25

Each ___ had a chief god/goddess

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City

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Lived in palaces

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Rulers

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Lived in tiny house

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Sumerian citizens

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People who had the same trade ___

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Lived on the same street

Question 29

Ancestor of today’s shopping mall

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Bazaar

Question 30

____ made Sumerian cities rich

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Trade

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Traders used ____ for carrying goods

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Wheeled carts

Question 32

Rivaling city-states battled for control of

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Land & Water

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Form of government led by kings and queens born into their title

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Monarchy

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Rulers maintained these 3 things

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City walls, irrigation, war/laws

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Rulers employed _____ for smaller tasks

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Scribes

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Rulers had ____ duties as ___________

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Religious Priest-kings

Question 37

Each Sumerian city-states had ______ for their social class

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Hierarchies

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Ruling families were considered

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High class

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Scribes merchants etc were considered

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Middle class

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The majority were

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Peasant farmers

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Farmers tended _______ land or _______ land

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Their own The king’s

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The enslaved people were _____ or ____

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Captured at war __________ worked to pay their debts

Question 43

Women in Mesopotamia had a higher social status early on in Sumer since

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Sumerian also worshiped goddesses

Question 44

The Sumerian religion was

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Polytheism

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Polytheistic means

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Believes in multiple gods

Question 46

Sumerians believed that gods/goddesses controlled __________

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All aspects of life

Question 47

Sumerians believed that gods/goddesses behaved _________

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Like ordinary people

Question 48

Sumerian’s religious duty was to __________

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Keep gods and goddesses happy

Question 49

At new year the king won _____

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Inanna’s favor

Question 50

This ritual at new year was supposed to make the year

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Fruitful and prosperous

Question 51

Sumerian believed in an _____ in the ____ at death

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Afterlife in the underworld

Question 52

Sumerian writing

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Cuneiform

Question 53

Cuneiform was written by

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Scribes

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______ got many customs from Sumerians and altered them

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Newcomers

Question 55

Sumer’s traditions were ______ and _________

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Adopted and spread across the Middle East

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Sumerians used geometry and Astronomy for making _____ and predicting ____

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Calendars. Eclipses

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Sumerian’s number system was based on the number

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60

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Astronomy was done by

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Priests

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Sumerians shaped wet clay into

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Pottery

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Was used for tools and weapons

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Bronze

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Used to weave cloth

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Looms

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Some art Sumerians made are

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Instruments Jewlery and statues

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Sumerian signed documents using

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Cylinder seals rolled onto wet clay

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Sumer had rich

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Oral literature

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When Sumerian city states were conquered the ____ disappeared but the ____ survived

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Language Ideas & Inventions

Question 66

Sumerian heritage was passed on through

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Mesopotamians Greeks & Romans Western World

Question 67

Sumerian knowledge and achievements were preserved and furthered, they shape

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The western world today

Question 68

Fertile Crescent is now

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Iraq