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Mesopotamia Section 3
Horrell Lamb Stroup
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History
6th Grade
11/19/2010

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cuneiform
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"wedge-shaped" the world's first system of writing p.65
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pictographs
Definition
picture symbols p.66
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scribe
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professional writer p.66
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epics
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long poems that tell the stories of heroes p.66
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architecture
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the science of building p.68
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ziggurat
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a pyramid-shaped temple tower
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cylinder seals
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Sumer's most famous works of art; Sumerians "signed" documents with them p.68
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The long, poetic story of a legendary Sumerian king p.70
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60
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Sumerian's math system was based on this number p.67
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wheel
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Sumerians invented this, and later used it to make carts and wagons p.67
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