Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization Flashcard

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Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery are called

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artisans

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The Sumerian writing system was called

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cuneiform

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Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

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Hammurabi

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Grand temple with a shrine at the top

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Ziggurat

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Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops

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Irrigation

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Record keepers who often kept records for government officials

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Scribes

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Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

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Tigris and Euphrates

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Which of these are Sumerian inventions? Plow, The wheel

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The wheel

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A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

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city-state

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What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

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Iraq