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| What is an account created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event? |
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| What is an account created after an event took place? |
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| What is involved in the job of a historian? |
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| Ask questions, gather evidence, draw conclusions based on their own point of view. |
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| What is an extra supply of something called? |
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| What does having an extra supply of something lead to? |
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| What is the agricultural revolution? |
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| The change from gathering food to raising food. |
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| What did the hunter gatheres live on? |
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| center of trade; People entered homes through the roof; the dead were buried beneath houses; no streets; located in Southern Turkey |
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| Why did the Sumerians develop their writing system? |
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| Keep records; record laws, send messages |
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| Name the Sumerian social classes from the highest to lowest. |
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| Kings, priests, farmers, slaves |
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| Has villages and farmland |
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| What did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers provide for farming? |
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| Who could become a scribe in Mesopotamia and what made it difficult? |
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| Upper class boys. Had about 600 characters |
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| On a time line, the most recent event can be found to the ________. |
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| On a time line, the earliest event can be found to the _________. |
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| In what ways were the Ten Commandments and Hammurabi's Code similar? |
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| Honor your parents, no murder or stealing, written on stone |
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| Who did God choose to be the father of the Hebrew people from the city state of Ur? |
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| What is the worship of one God called? |
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| What is the worship of many Gods called? |
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| How did the farmers in Egypt know when to plant the crops? |
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| The Nile flooded the same time each year. |
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| Since Southern Egypt has a higher elevation it is called___________ Egypt. |
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| What present day country is Mesopotamia in? |
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