A payment the government collects from people to pay government expenses
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What was the role of women in the Sumerian society?
Most Sumerian women cared for their children and ran their household.
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Name three members of the Sumerians middle class.
merchants, farmers, fishers and artisans.
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Name the two rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates
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What is the phrase used to describe the guiding principle for the laws in Hammurabi's Code?
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
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Sumerians created a way of writing called...
cuneiform
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Name two inventions of the Sumerians.
wheel, cart, chariot, sailboat, plow, potter's wheel, bronze, place-value system of numbers, system based on 60, 12 month calendar, multiplication & division
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What is a ziggurat?
A large temple that was considered the god's home in Sumerian city-states.
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Why is Mesopotamia also called the "cradle of civilization"?
It included the first civilization and was the beginning of organized human society.
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Name one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Great Pyramids, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Temple of Artemis, Colossus of Rhodes, Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria
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Why is Mesopotamia known as the Fertile Crescent?
The land is shaped like a crescent and very fertile due to the water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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Name one reason why the Assyrian army was successful?
50,000 soldiers, iron weapons, brutal to enemies and included infantry, cavalry and charioteers
