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Mesopotamia Test # 1 --- Terms
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polytheism
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monotheism
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anthropomorphic
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animism
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assumption / inference
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history / prehistoric
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Fertile Crescent
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Mesopotamia
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Civilization
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Near East
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homo sapiens
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Agricultural Revolution
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Jericho / Çatal Hüyük
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metallurgy
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monumental architecture
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Sumerians (Sumer)
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alluvium/alluvial soil
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divination
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fatalism
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specialization of jobs
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cuneiform
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cylinder seals
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lapis lazuli
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patriarchy
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Queen Puabi’s Headress
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Dudu
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C. Leonard Woolly (c.1920)
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Royal Tombs of Ur (c.2500 BCE)
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Standard of Ur
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Sargon of Akkad c.2350 BCE
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Nimrod
Cities:
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Ur
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Uruk
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Babylon
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Sippar
The Enuma Elis:
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Apsu and Tiamat
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Anu, Ea (Enki), Enlil
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Kingu and the Tablets of Destiny
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Marduk
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the Anunakki
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Bahrain (the tw0 seas/muddied ones)
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Abzu – House of the Cosmic Waters
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Upsukkinnaku