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1
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How many days are there in the week ?

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Seven

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What were the names of the two rivers?

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Tigris and Euphrates

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Mesopotamia is Greek for what?

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The land between the rivers

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4
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Great cities laid out with long what?

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Straight streets, tall houses, palaces and temples

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What was the greatest city on earth?

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Babylon

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What was the second greatest city called?

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Nineveh

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Blank was the capital for Babylonians?

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Babylon

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8
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Who was in charge of the Assyrians?

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Nineveh

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Many blank and many blank held power at different times?

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Tribes and Kings

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Who were the three most important groups/tribes?

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Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians

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In Egyptian culture they had blank?

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Towns, Noblemen, Temples, and
Priests , Administrators ,Artists,
Kings, Tradesmen ,Writing and Technical Skills

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12
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Sumerians were ahead of the what?

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Egyptians

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13
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People learned how to shape blank from blank?

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Bricks from Clay

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People learned how to build houses and temples by?

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3100 BC

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Where can you find the largest mounds?

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The city of Ur

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A region in the Middle East is know called what?

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Iraq

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The Tigris and Euphrates join together and flow out to where?

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Persian Gulf

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18
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Mesopotamia is not in Africa but where?

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Asia

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If you dig through bricks and rubble, you meet blank?

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Stout and high walls

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20
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Cuneiform means what?

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Wedge Shaped

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21
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Books made of papyrus were unknown to?

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Mesopotamia

22
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Inscriptions were not found in?

A

Hieroglyphs

23
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The oldest book law- book was known as the?

A

Code of Hammurabi

24
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King Hammurabi lived around 1700 BC how long ago was that?

A

That was 3700 years ago

25
Q

The Babylonians and the Assyrians were blank and blank?

A

Disciplined and Hardworking

26
Q

But they didn’t paint blank like the Egyptians?

A

Cheerful Pictures

27
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Where can you find treasures?

A

At the British Museum, The University of Pennsylvania

28
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Where else can you find treasures?

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At the museum of Baghdad

29
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What did people do to tablets of soft clay?

A

They put them in the oven

30
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Who battled Monsters and Dragons?

A

Gilgamesh

31
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Kings had temples built for all eternity and what else?

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And all the nations they have conquered

32
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Merchants recorded their business dealing, contracts, receipts and what else?

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And the inventories of goods

33
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What did kings have?

A

Long black ringlets

34
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Somethings the tribes were shown making sacrifices to who?

A

Baal the sun good or the moon goddess Ishtar or Astarte

35
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Who worshiped the sun and the moon and the stars?

A

Babylonians and The Assyrians

36
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What was reappearing every night?

A

The vault of Heaven

37
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Mars meant wars and what did Venus mean?

A

Love

38
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What was dedicated a day?

A

Each of the five plants

39
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These half ruined blank can still be seen today?

A

Ziggurats

40
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The earliest kings lived as long ago as?

A

3000 BC

41
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Ziggurats were poking out of what?

A

Rubble mounds

42
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Who was the last Babylonian King?

A

Nebuchadnezzar

43
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Nebuchadnezzar lived around Blank BC?

A

600 BC

44
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Nebuchadnezzar was remembered for his blank?

A

Feats of war

45
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He fought against Egypt to bring home what to Babylon?

A

Foreign Captives

46
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Nebuchadnezzar used the foreign captives as what?

A

Slaves

47
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Those fierce kings had what?

A

Long, Black beards

48
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The land today is a what?

A

Desert wasteland and marshy plain

49
Q

Foreign tribes did what?

A

captured people

50
Q

Weekdays started how long ago?

A

Thousand of years ago

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