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Result of lack of barriers in Middle East?

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The region became a crossroad where people and ideas met and mingled

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Fertile Crescent

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A region of the Middle East named for its rich soils and golden wheat fields

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What does Mesopotamia mean?

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Land between two rivers

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What two rivers flowed through Mesopotamia?

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Tigris and Euphrates

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Where is Sumer

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Southeast Mesopotamia

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Key to major developments in Mesopotamia?

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Control of the two rivers

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What event relating to the two rivers was in the epic of Gilgamesh?

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The great flood

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Two early cities if the Sumerians

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Ur and Uruk

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What was the primary building material used by the Sumerians?

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Clay and water

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What great invention may be attributed to the Sumerians?

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The wheel

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What two far away places did Sumer trade?

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Egypt and India

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How many separate city states made up the Sumerian civilization?

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Who became the most important people in Sumer and what did this eventually evolve into?

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War leaders

It evolved into hereditary rule

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5 important things rulers of Sumerian city states were responsible for

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  1. Maintaining city walls
  2. Leading armies into war
  3. Enforcing the laws
  4. Employing scribes to carry out functions like collecting taxes and keeping records
  5. Maintaining irrigation systems
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Hierarchy

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System of ranking groups such as highest and small middle classes

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Who made up the highest class in sumeria?

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The ruling family, leading officials, and high priests

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What did the majority of people in sumeria do?

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Most people were peasant farmers

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In what two ways did most slaves become slaves?

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Most had been captured in war, but some sold themselves into slavery to pay their debts

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Status of women in Mesopotamian society?

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Women held a higher social standing, but never held legal rights equal to those of men

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In what one area could woken be powerful and influential?

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High in religious aspects

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What general form of religious worship did Sumerians practice?

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Polytheism. These gods were thought to control every aspect of life

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What was the highest duty of people of Sumer?

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To keep the gods happy

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Ziggurat

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A large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to the city’s chief god or goddess

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Sumerian view of afterlife

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All people lived in a grim underworld from which there was no release

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Cuneiform
The earliest known form of writing. Consisted of wedge shaped marks on clay tablets
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Approximately when was Sumerian civilization replaced by other civilizations?
Approx 1900 BC
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Through what two major civilizations were many Sumerian advances passed on to the western world?
Greeks and Romans
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Why did Gilgamesh pick the plant?
It will grant him immortality
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Characteristic of snake after eating plant?
Sheds skin
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What other story did a snake take paradise away from a human?
Adam and Eve
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Some simply raised the Middle East, what did others do?
Stayed to rule
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Who is Sargon and what city did eh rule?
Ruler of Akkad. Also conquered many city states
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What great achievement was Sargon known for?
Building the first empire
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What happened after the death of Sargon?
Other invaders swept into the valley, tumbling his empire to ruin
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Who was Hammurabi and what city did he rule?
King of Babylon who brought much of Mesopotamia under his empire.
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What is Hanmurabi's code, where was it posted, and how many laws were there?
It was a set of 282 laws carved in a stele for all to see
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Codify?
To arrange or set down in writing
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Civil war?
The branch of law that deals with private right and matters
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What did it say about women and property?
Women could own property and pass it on to her children
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What did it say about trouble within marriage?
If a woman were found blameless for the troubles, then she could leave the marriage, but if she were found guilty then she could be thrown in a river
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The main god of the Hittites was...
Puduhepa, the weather god
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An ancient religious structure of Sumeria is a...
ziggurat
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Sumerians and Babylonians believed that you went here after death
a dark, dusty hole in the ground
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Name the primary activity of the Phoenicians.
Trading
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This word means "wedge-shaped writing"
cuneiform
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Phoenicians helped make the world more democratic by
simplifying language
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Cyrus was the first great
persian emperor
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This city was an important Phoenician establishment:
Carthage
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Who is said to have led the Hebrews out of Egypt?
Moses
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What was the capital of the Kingdom of Israel?
Jerusalem
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What is the name of the part of the Bible in which the early history of the Hebrews was written?
Old Testament
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The Hittite leader Mursilis I is best known for
Sacking Babylon
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This consort of Innana helps to explain winter
Dumuzi
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On which Mediterranean coast were the Phoenician city-states located?
Eastern
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Assurbanipal is best-known for
his library
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Which Hebrew General defeated the Philistines?
David
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Farming in the Hittite Empire was made possible by
fertile volcanic ash deposited onto the plateau
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Name the road used by Persians to control their vast empire.
The Great Royal Road
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The Persian Empire is most known for
allowing self government in provinces
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The leader of Ancient Babylonia that built the Hanging Gardens.
King Nebuchadnezzar
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He is the evil spirt of Zoroastrianism
Ahriman
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These people's script replaced cuneiform.
Pheonecian
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How many cuneiform tablets, making up the huge library created by the Hittites, were found?
22,000
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The Assyrians were most known for their expertise in
siege warfare
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Name of the city where a vast cuneiform library was found.
Nineveh
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The Hittite's primary military structure was
a system of horses, chariot warriors, and mercenaries
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The second of two major leaders of Persia that divided the vast Persian empire into provinces.
Darius
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What important item helped us to decipher cuneiform writing in 1915?
The Behistun Inscription
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Which of the following was the Sumerian god of water?
Enki
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What innovations allowed the Hittites to dominate neighboring peoples?
Spoked wheels and iron
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What is a covenant?
a binding agreement
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``` Which of the following was not a Sumerian god or goddess? Enlil Innana Shamash Anu ```
Shamash
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If you choose to join him, you can live forever in paradise
Ahura Mazda
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He is the evil spirt of Zoroastrianism
Ahriman
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Who developed a new system of numbers which made it far easier to record various transactions and measurements.
Babylonians
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How did King Solomon create great resentment among his people?
taxed them
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The name of provinces used to divide up the vast Persian empire.
Satrapies
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Sargon II was a
Assyrian leader
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Who seized Judah and sent Hebrew slaves to Babylon?
Nebuchadnezzer
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The Persian Empire is most known for
allowing self government in provinces

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