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Ancient Sumer
Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?
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History
6th Grade
09/21/2010

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a two-wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse

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chariot 

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an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower

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ziggurat

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an upside down U or V shaped structure that supports weight above it, as in a doorway

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arch

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Sumerian writing that uses wedge-shaped characters

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cunieform 

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a person's importance in society

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status

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a symbol that stands for an object

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pictograph 

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the way a civilization is organized

 

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social structure 

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the use of tools and other inventions for practiacal purposes

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technology 

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the beliefs and behaviors of a group of people

 

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culture 

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a culture that has arts, government, social structure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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civilization 

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a person who writes

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