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Sumer Flashcards

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Sumerian period:

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3500—2000 BC

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River valley civilizations is from

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4000 BC—500 BC

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Sumer between —– and ——

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Tigris

Euphrates

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Mesopotamia is Greek for

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Land between the rivers

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Rivers

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A source of food and water but trouble because floods in the spring

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Floods can be

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Catastrophic

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Can you tell when flooding will be?

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No

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Silt

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Mud/dirt created by rivers,good for farming

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City states with features of

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Civilization

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Irrigation

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drainage ditches, how Sumerians got control of water flow

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Sumerian also refers to their

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Language

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City states in Sumer

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Kish, Nippur, Ur, Uruk, others

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Sumerians’ world’s first system of writing called

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Cuneiform

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Cuneiform is the Latin word for

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Wedge shaped

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Scribes

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High profile position could lead to higher positions

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Kings at first ——- then in —— BC position becomes ——-

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Elected
3000
Hereditary

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King’s responsibilities

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Build temples, maintain canals

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Sumer is the first civilization in history to record

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Ziggurat

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Temple pyramids at the center of each city, most important building in city

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People were created for the —- on Sumer

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each city state has a ziggurat and it focuses on a different —–

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Sumerians’ religion

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Everything happened because the gods wanted it to

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Who is in the ziggurat?

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Four major gods

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An
Ki
Enlil
Enki

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An

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Ki

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Enlil

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Air/storm/thunder

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Enki

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Water, crafts, mischief, intelligence

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Priests

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Some of first people in history to work out a system of ideas about the gods

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Disaster might be decreed for a particular —- by the gods

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Who carries out the will of gods?

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Sumerians thought about

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Why the gods did why they did

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How important is kingship In Sumer?

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Kingship is the final and perfect ordering principle of human existence and in its absence the human story is incomplete, this is implied by the Sumerian king list

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King list traces over

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20,000 years

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The king list tracks ——, some mythological, some real

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Kings’ reigns

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Me’s

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Giglamesh

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Sumerian king

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Kingship is one way the Sumerians understood their

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—– of kingship list demonstrates how important kingship is: “——-“

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First line

When kingship descended from Heaven

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Idea of having a king comes from the

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Kings rules by

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Divine right

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