1. What is implied by the word "civilization"? 
(at least four things)

2. Where are these things found together for the first time 
in the world?

3. Characterize the environment of Mesopotamia.

4. What place may the model for the Biblical Garden of Eden?

5. What Sumerian town was centered around a 5000 BC sand 
mound with a reed fence, where the Sumerians believed that 
kingship first came down to Earth and which they considered 
to be the mound of creation?

6. Describe Warka (Uruk).

7. What seven firsts for Sumer can now be seen 
to be of world-wide significance?

8. Describe when and how the Sumerian civilization came to an end.

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