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What religions originate in the ancient Middle East?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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2
Where is the fertile crescent?
from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Zagros Mountains in the east, bordered in the north by the Taurus Mountains and in the south by the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert
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3
What first happened in the fertile crescent?
people began farming and herding
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When did farming and herding first take place?
around 8,000 B.C.E
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What did farming and herding allow people to do?
settle into permanent villages and begin accumulating a surplus of food
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What did having a surplus of food allow people to do?
have different jobs (like merchant, teacher, and scribe)
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Why was the middle east an important location?
it is the merging point of three continents, so travellers often passed through it
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8
What language replaced Sumerian?
Akkadian
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What was Sumerian still used as?
a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language
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What were Sumerian workers paid in?
barley
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How did Sumerians write?
with a reed pen on a clay tablet
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Who was Gilgamesh?
a legendary king of Uruk who likely lived about 2700 B.C.E
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Where was the oldest evidence of a law code found?
the ancient city Ebla (a city in modern-day Syria)
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