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Mesopotamia Flashcards

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Mesopotamia means…

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The land between two rivers

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Mesopotamia is also known as…

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fertile crescent

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Mesopotamia is now…

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modern day Iraq

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Mesopotamia was between the rivers…

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Tigris and Euphrates

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The flooding of the rivers lead to…

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fertile soil

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Irrigation was invented to…

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help control the flow of water to water the crops

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Due to the open plains mesopotamia…

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vulnerable to easy attacks

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Because mesopotamia was vulnerable to easy attacks…

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they built city walls

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Mesopotamia was made up of…

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City-states

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A city-state is…

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A state that functioned much like an independent country

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Polytheistic believed in…

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many gods

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Humans must please gods to…

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avoid natural disasters, losses, etc

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A ziggurat is a…

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temple/place of worship in the center of the city

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Religion leads to creation of…

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Mathematics, Calendars, and Astronomy

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The economy was based of on…

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Agriculture and Trade

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Mesopotamia lacked…

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Natural Resources

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Because mesopotamia lacked natural resources they…

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had to rely on trade for resources they could not obtain themselves

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Most of the population of Mesopotamia had…

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No power/money

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A small portion of the population of Mesopotamia had…

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Had power/money

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Cities served as center of…

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life through trade and religion

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Cities in the state of sumer:

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Ur, Lagash, Uruk

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Ur, Lagash and Uruk formed…

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along the tigris and euphrates river

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Cuneiform is a…

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sumerian form of writing in the style of pictographs

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Pictographs are…

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symbols that represent sounds. words and phrases

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Cuneiform was written on clay tablets in order to keep…

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track of business, historical events, customs, and traditions

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The 1st empire was the…

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Akkadian empire, 2340 BC

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Sargon of Akkad created…

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the 1st empire

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Hammurabi’s code was the first…

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the first uniform code, and would inspire later rulers create their own laws

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Hammurabi’s code was written…

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down and displayed all over the empire

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Hammurabi’s codes punishments were…

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meant to fit the crime “eye for an eye” applied differently depending on the social class

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