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What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The rivers the Sumerians used to irrigate their crops
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What is to read and write?
The main duty of a scribe
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What is Sumer?
The world’s first civilization began at this place.
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What is irrigation?
To transport water to the crops the Sumerians used this process.
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What is cuneiform?
The writing style used by the Sumerians.
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What is ziggurat?
The most important form of architecture in any Sumerian city-state
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What is the invention of the plow?
Technique which most caused an increase in food production.
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What is to keep track of items that were traded?
The main reason the Sumerians developed writing
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What is polytheistic?
The Mesopotamian religion, which had nearly 3,000 gods, can be described as
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What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf?
The geographic features the Fertile Crescent spans?
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What are city-states?
Government of Sumer was divided into political units
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Who are the Priests?
The religious Sumerians who worked atop ziggurats.
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What are the rivers in the area?
These features of the Fertile Crescent did the most to make it fertile.
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What is a monarchy?
The type of government of the city-states of Sumer
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Who are Priests?
Served a role between the Sumerians and the gods
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