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Mesopatamia Flashcards

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ziggurat

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a piramid shaped temple

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What are the three city-states?

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ur urak and lagash

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cuineform

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worlds foirst system of writing

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scribe

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a job of a person who wrote on clay

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Hammurabi’s code

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The first set of 282 laws created by Hammurabi

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Social Hierarchy

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A system that divides people into classes based on the jobs of your family.

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Empire

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Independent territories that make up a civilization.

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Division of Labor

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A system that divides people into jobs

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Irrigation

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A way of controlling water for farmingirrigation

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Fertile Crescent

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A large arc of rich or fertile farmland

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Silt

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A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile.

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Mesopotamia

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A Greek word meaning land between the land between two rivers.

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Why is mesopatamia named fertile crescent

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because they have rich soil

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what does mesopatamia mean

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a land between two rivers

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