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  • What were independent cities with their own government and ziggurat called?
    City states
  • 13. Sumerians practiced __________, the belief in many gods
    polytheism
  • True or false: Sumerians believed that their lives were controlled by the gods
    True
  • An arrangement in which people in a community specialize in a specific task
    Division of labor
  • What was the Sumerian style of writing called?
    Cuneiform
  • True or false: Kings did not have high social class
    False
  • What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?
    The land between two rivers
  • Name that means you worship multiple gods or deities
    polytheistic
  • What was a Mesopotamian invention that made transportation on land easier?
    the wheel
  • Sumerians formed the world’s first ______ , or governing system ruled by a king or a queen.
    Monarchy
  • True or False: Sumerians believed in only one god
    False
  • A temple where Sumerians believed their gods and goddesses lived.
    ziggurat
  • What is the name of the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia
    Tigris and Euphrates
  • The number of laws in Hammurabi's Code
    282
  • What was the main export in Mesopotamia?
    Crops/agriculture
  • Most early river civilizations, such as Mesopotamia, developed on the CONTINENT of ____________________.
    Asia
  • What was the name of the person that records things for others?
    scribe
  • Mesopotamian buildings and walls were constructed from what material?
    Mud/clay bricks
  • Why were there walls around the city states in Mesopotamia?
    To protect them from enemies
  • What Mesopotamian invention made transportation along water easier?
    The sailboat
  • Sargon was the ruler of which people?
    Akkadians
  • What modern day country is currently where Mesopotamia once was?
    Iraq
  • What is the system that brought river water to the Sumerian fields?
    irrigation
  • True or false: Everyone cold communicate with the gods
    false
  • As floodwaters drained, they deposited soil and tiny rocks on the land to form a new layer of _________________.
    silt
  • True or false: Mesopotamians did not have social classes
    False
  • Name of the large arc of rich farmland land that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
    The Fertile Crescent
  • True or False: Sumerians made temples called ziggurats
    True
  • King Hammurabi was the ruler of which people?
    Babylonians
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