Flashcards in Ch.2 part 2 Deck (16)
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Sumer
a powerful city-state in southeren Mesopotamia
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Akkad
a city-state in northern mesopotamia
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Uruk
A large sumerian city-state is Mesopotamia
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Gilgamesh
sumerian king whoses eventures were recorded
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Sargon
Akkadian king who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule
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Enheduanna
Daughter of Sargon
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Ur-Nammu
summerian king who founded the last and most successful dynasty of Ur
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Shulgi
king of the dynasty of Ur also son of Ur-Nammu
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Ziggurat
a huge pyramid shaped structure cosisting of a seiries of stacked rectangular platforms
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Society
an organized community with established rules and tradions
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Polytheism
the worship of many gods
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Scribe
a perfessinal writer
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Cuneform
a form of wedged shaped writing used in acient times
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Conqure
to defeat
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Empire
a large territory consisting of many different places under control of a single ruler
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