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Social Studies
6th Grade
11/29/2011

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what did sumerian cities look like? what sorounded the cities? what did they make houses out of?
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they where sorounded by a wall and there was a ziggurat gates let people in and out narrow winding streets and reeds and mud for houses.
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what where priests? what was there job?
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priests where the people whom spoke to the gods and there job was to tell the people what would satify the gods. and to satify them themselfs to they all beleived in four main gods
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new leaders what did they do who where they
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they where the kings and they led the states during war and took over the priests job and maintained the canals and acted as judges.
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who was the first person to write the laws? did the laws apply to everyone?
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hammurabi. and yes the laws applied to everyone.
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what does and empire do?
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brings people together encourages trade and encourages people from dirrerent cultures to share ideas and customes.
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what did hammurabi beleive in/ what should society run by?
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hammurabi beleived in justice and society should run by the rule of the law.
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