Ancient Mesopotamia

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What is a ziggurat?

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Large temple towers that were believed to be the home of gods in ancient Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia was located where?

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Iraq

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The Mesopotamian people established laws and a government, had schools (for some) and spent their days working as brick makers, farmers, and in other trades. True or False?

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True

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This week we learned about ___________.

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Mesopotamia

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Learning about Ancient Mesopotamia was fun!

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YES!!!

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What is one of the earliest written languages?

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Cuneiform

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People who could read or write in Cuneiform im Mesopotamia were called _______.

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Scribes

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People who could read or write (scribes) in ancient Mesopotamia were very valuable to the Mesopotamian people because so few people had those skills.

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When clay hardened, the tablets that Mesopotamians wrote on became permanent records-as long as no one dropped them.

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True

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A complex society that has cities, governments, art, religion, and writing.

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civilization