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Mesopotamia: First Settlers
Ancient History Ch 1 Story of the Old World
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History
6th Grade
09/20/2012

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The reason the Persian Empire fell
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Too much costly living and pleasure
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Chaldeans
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Built the first bridges
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Chaldeans
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The first astrologers
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Chaldeans
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Ruled by Nebuchadnezzar
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Plain of Shinar
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Located in southern Mesopotamiain of Shinar
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King Solomon
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This king built the temple in Jerusalem
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Fertile Crescent
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Named because of its size and shape
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Life became HARD because of this
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Adam and Eve's disobedience
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Persians
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Were successful because they were tolerant
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Hammurabi
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a Babylonian leader who organized laws
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Time Began...
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When God "Said"
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Hebrews
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God revealed Himself to these people
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Artisans
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Skilled professionals in some kind of industry or trade
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Phoenicians
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Sailors who helped to spread their alphabet
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Phoenicians
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Founded purple dye
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Sumerians
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The wheel was discovered by these people
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Sumerians
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Known for the arch and dome
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Pride
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The reason the people from the Plain of Shinar were scattered by God
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Civilization
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What people have done to make the earth more livable
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Cuneiform Writing
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Type of communication that used wedge-shaped marks
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Assyrians
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Known for their alabaster carvings
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Adam and Eve
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Parents of the human race
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Reservoir
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Large man-made space for water storage
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Astrology
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The study of how positions of stars and planets affect people
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City State
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A walled city and the land around it
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Reservoir
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an artificial lake used to store water
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cuneiform
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a system of writing with edge-shaped marks
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Archeologist
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people who dig up and study artifacts
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Seal
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device used in place of a signature
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Crescent
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Shape that is less than a half circle
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Artisan
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Skilled professional in some industry or trade
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Sumerians
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Known for the Arch
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Sumerians
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Known for cuneiform writing
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Phoenicians
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Known as shipbuilders
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Hebrews
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They wrote the Old Testament
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Chaldeans
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Known for their hanging gardens
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Babylonians
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Known for their walled city
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Babylonians
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Known for their temple to Marduk
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Assyrians
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Known for their superior army & cruel ways
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Assyrians
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Known for deporting 10 of Israels tribes
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They learned to depend on God
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Why the wilderness journey was so important to the Hebrews
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For building a temple to heaven & PRIDE
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2 reasons God confused the language of the people from the Plain of Shinar
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Tigris and Euphrates
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2 rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia
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Sumerians
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Polytheistic religion
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Polytheism
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A type of religion that worships many gods, believing they go to a grim underworld when they die
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Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes
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Kings of the Persians
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Phoenicians
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They built ships out of cedar trees
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Chaldeans
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They improved the city of Babylon
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Assyrians
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They improved the arch
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Babylonians
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They organized an unfair justice system
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Sumerians
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Priests are their leaders
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