| A | B |
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| what are city states | cities and their surrounding territories |
| Artisans | skilled workers |
| ziggurat | the temple for the sumer eople |
| scribe | a skilled writer |
| preist-king | the sumerian government and religous leader |
| empire | a territory governed by a single ruler of a nation |
| culture | away of life |
| reform | a change that is to improve |
| reign | to rule for a period of time |
| what are two accomplighments of Hammurabi | creating one code of law for everyone to follow and he conquered Sumer and Akad to become ruler of the empire |
| what was Sargon I's accomplishmeant? | he created an empire |
| what was the center of summerian life? | there gods were always trying to please the gods. the ziggerat |
| what was another name for Mesopatonia? | "the cradle of civilization" |
| why was it called that? | because it was the first civilization and the first to record things that appened in everday life |
| what did the "cradle of civilization ' give to mathematics | they created a nuber system based on 60 |
| what are some things the cradle of civilization created? | sailboat ,wheel, water clock , plow ,lawcode , first cities and government |
| what are other names for the twin river? | Tigris and the Euphrates |
| what does mesopatania mean? | it means between the rivers |
| a sumer cities | UR |
| what did the sumers do to bring water to their crpos? | they built leeves to prevent flooding and then they poke holes in the full levee and water flows through to the crops and creates canals |
| what some of the accomplishments of the sumerians | have a monarchy , created government , built cities , made their own written language , learned to use water conservitly |
