| A | B |
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| Catal Huyuk | largest city ever discovered |
| Catal Huyuk | existed over 8500 years ago, located in Turkey |
| Catal Huyuk | people domesticated animals and plants |
| Catal Huyuk | religion was important, every 3rd builing was a temple |
| Catal Huyuk | houses were made of mud brick, wood, plaster, roofs were flat |
| People had specialized jobs, (ex. toolmaker) | Catal Huyuk |
| crafts brought trade | Catal Huyuk |
| located in s.w. Asia in area called Fertile Crescent | Mesopotamia |
| Mesopotamia | means "between the rivers" |
| Mesoopotamia lies between what 2 rivers | Tigris and Euphartes |
| Why were floods important to Mesopotamia? | river floods brought silt to land making the land fertile |
| Time farm settlements began around in Mesopotamia | around 7000 BCE |
| In what area did the first early settlements develope into the world's first civilization? | Mesopotamia |
| the development of_______ led to a surplus of food so fewer people needed to farm | irrigation |
| storage basins dug to hold water and canals used to bring water to the fields | irrigation |
| settlement developed into cities | between 4000 and 3000 BCE |
| located in southern Mesopotamia | Sumer |
| Sumer | divided into city-states that fought each other for control of the land |
| Sargon | name of the Akkadian leader |
| attacked and defeated the city-states of Sumer | Akkadians and Sargon |
| Sumerian city-state that conquered rest of Mesopotamia afer Sargon's death | Sumerian city-state of Ur |
| Located on the Euphrates River near the Persian Gulf | Ur |
| a great trading center with wall built around city for protection | Ur |
| polytheists | people who believe in many gods |
| Polytheists believed each Sumerian had the duty to serve and worship the gods | Polytheists |
| polytheists believed the gods | controlled everything |
| Priests | interpreted the wishes of the gods |
| these people had political power and made laws | men of Sumer |
| women | took care of home and children |
| ancient Mesopotamia was a region or a country? | Region |
| City founded on the Euphrates River | Babylon |
| 10,000 sq. miles area, south of Babylon | Sumer |
| 2 first cities in Sumer | Ur and Kish |
| bordered Mesopotamia on the east | Zagros Mountains |
| what was to the west of Mesopotamia? | Mediterranean Sea |
| Mediterranean Sea | west of area of Mesopotamia |
