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- 6. To tame animals for meat, milk, and hides.
- 7. The most common job in Mesopotamian was farming. Most peasants worked on a farm of some kind.
- 8. A religious belief in many gods or goddesses.
- 10. Large templates are usually located in the center of a Mesopotamian city. Ziggurats looked like pyramids with a flat top.
- 12. Any low ridge or earthen embankment built along the edges of a stream or river channel to prevent flooding of the adjacent land.
- 13. canals: Watering crops through mad-made off arts such as ditches and canals.
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- 1. A writing tool made from a reed that scribes used to make wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets.
- 2. A city-state is an independently governed region that is centered around a single powerful city. The civilization or the sumer was governed by many independent city-states.
- 3. The initial writing of the Sumerians utilized simple pictures or pictograms. For example, a drawing of a head would mean that is a ‘’head.’’
- 4. The last major empire of ancient Mesopotamian, the Persian empire conquered much of the Middle East.
- 5. A person trained in writing the cuneiform script. They were well-respected in Mesopotamian society.
- 9. Some jobs were much more crucial than others. This led some people to have more power.
- 11. Plow: The Mesopotamian seeder was invented around 1500 BCE. It was made for farming rather than doing it by hand.