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CHS brittany:) ch3
CHS brittany:) ch3 world history
Question | Answer |
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Who were the people who settled in Mesopotamia in 3500BC? | Sumerians |
What is the Mesopotamia area known as? | Sumer |
What is the land between the rivers called? | Mesopotamia |
What is the fertile area around Mesopotamia called? | Fertile Crescent |
The_is the earliest civilization on Earth. | Sumerian Civilization |
The Sumerians learned how to control the twin _. | Rivers |
The Tigris and Euphrates are known as? | The twin rivers |
When the Tigris and Euphrates flood, what does it leave behind? | Levees |
What are the crops that were the chiefs? | Barley, Wheat, Sesame, Flax, Fruit, Trees, and Date plants |
What was there little of in the Sumer, so they had to build with other materials? | Timber |
What did they make bricks out of? | Mud and crushed Reeds |
What was one of the great cities called? | Ur |
Each city-state was made up of the city and the _ around it. | Farmland |
What were the cities surrounded by? | Lions and Bandits |
Near the center of the city lived the _ class, then the middle class were behind the wealthy. The middle class was made up of government, shopkeepers, and artisans. | Upper |
What was the lower class made up of? | Farmers, unskilled workers, and fishermen |
Often one city-state would go to war with one other over _ dispute. | Boundary |
At the center of each Sumerians city was a temple called _ which means mountain of god, or Hill of Heaven. | Ziggurat |
The Ziggurat believed to be the home of the city's chief god, only _ could enter the home | Priests |