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writing sumerian achievements
Developed____________ using tools called styluses to make shapes in clay tables
cuneiform
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writing sumerian achievements
Elier written comunication used pictographs to represent objects, cuneiform represented____________
syllables
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writing sumerian achievements
a __________ was hired to keep track of traded items and keep records
scribe
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writing sumerian achievements
they wrote about _______, ____, _______,______,____,_____,____.__________
history, law, grammar, math, stories, proverbs, songs and epic poems....
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Technical Advances
they invented the _______, they used it for carts and for potter's _________
wheel
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Technical Advances
they invented the _________
plow
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Technical Advances
they invented a clock with ___________
filling water
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Technical Advances
they built ________
sewers
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Technical Advances
bronze _________ and________
tools, weapons
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Technical Advances
makeup and glass jewerly
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Math and Science
Math system based on the number ______ (circle of _____ degrees, a year divided into ______ months...)
6, 360, 12
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Math and Science
calculated areas of rectangles and _________
triangles
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Math and Science
studied _________ (animals, plants and minerals)
science
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Math and Science
Used ________ with ingredients from animals, plants and minerals (milk, turtle shells, figs, and salt)
medicines
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Architecture
temples - ziggurat
houses
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The Arts
Sculptors made:
statues of gods
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The Arts
pottery and jewelry (gold, silver and gems)
cylinders to show ownership or to "sign" documents
reed pipes, drums, tambourines and lyres
dance
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cuneiform
the world's first system of writing
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pictographs
picture symbols
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epics
long poems that tell the stories of heroes
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architecture
the science of building
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ziggurat
a pyramid-shaped temple
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