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What is left behind after a river floods?
Silt
Who came first, Sumerians or Babylonians?
Sumerians
A ziggurat is-
a temple
What two rivers formed the fertile crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates
Hammurabi's Code helped keep order and structure. Today these sort of rules are called -
laws
Sumerian writing was called
Cuniform
Sumerian writing was called
Cuniform
Directing water to fields to help crops to grow is-
irrigation
The number behind Sumerian math is
60
True or false- Sumerians came up with the concept of dividing time into units.
True
What metal is created by combining copper and tin?
Bronze
What was the punishment for a son that struck his father?
The son could lose his hands
What are people called who move around to find food and who do not live in a settled location?
Nomads
The towns in the Fertile Crescent were called
city states
Why was the Mesopotamia called the Fertile Crescent?
The land is in the shape of a crescent
Mesopotamia is located in what is present day -
Iraq
