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| What was ancient Sumer's most important industry in terms of commercial activity? |
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| What rivers flow through the Fertile Crescent? |
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| Who developed the world's most ancient law code? |
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| Symbols for actions and ideas |
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What is the World's oldest work of literature outside of the Bible?
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| What does Mesopotamia mean? and where was it located? |
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between the rivers
located in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
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| first postdiluvian civilization, located in ther southernmost region of the Mesopotamia |
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| Symbols representing particular subjects |
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| Signs representing syllables |
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| When a people's culture begin to include a specialized division of labor, a written language, a written code of laws an organized form od government and the development of the arts and sciences |
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| What number was the Sumerian mathematics based on? |
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| Ten and gave special significance to number 60. |
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Who devided the year into lunar months?
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| Sumerian class of people, they were the ruling princes and their families, palace administrators, and the most important preists of the temple |
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| Sumerian society, free citizens who lived in extended patriarchal families. They owned and worked their land |
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Sumerian society, consisting of 3 groups:
- Well-to-do employees
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- People who worked in the Nobles estates
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| Sumerian society, who worked in the temples and palaces. |
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| long poem written in a dignified form which tells the story of a great fictitious or historical hero. |
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