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Mesopotamia
The packet
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History
10th Grade
08/31/2010

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What does Mesopotamia mean? Which 2?
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land between two rivers. Tigres and Euphrates
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What is a fertile cresent?
Definition
watered strip of land between met sea & persian gulf
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Where is meso now?
Definition
Iraq
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Sumerians key to life is?
Definition
Agriculture and herding!
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What is a city-state?
Definition
small country city+suburbs (own king & gov)
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What about relig?
Definition
Ziggurats/polytheistic
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What advancements di sumerians make?
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Cuniform, Archetecture, Literature, Geometry
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What were some major ports?
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Tyre and Sidon
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Who is father of judiasm?
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Abraham
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Who is 1st king of isreal?
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Saul
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Who is second ruler of isreal? howd it happen?
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Solomon, Saul Died
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What was diff about judiasm?
Definition
monotheistic
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What empires happened? In each
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1) Assyrian: Warriars, cap:Nineveh
2)Neo-Babylonian: know astrology
3) Persian: road system, tolerant rules, dualistic
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in the end?
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persian emp falls to greeks
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