Social Structure
These people were on the very bottom of the social structure.
Who were slaves?
This was Sumer's most important invention.
What is a wheel?
The name of Ancient Sumer's language.
What was cuneiform?
These people were in the middle of the social structure.
Who were merchants, craftspeople, and farmers?
Ancient Sumer's type of government.
What is a monarchy?
What the wheel was used for.
What is shaping clay and creating carts?
Three instruments the Sumerian musicians used.
What are drums, pipes, and lyres?
These people were at the top of the social structure.
Who were priests, land owners, and government officials?
People used these to travel their good around before the wheel was invented.
What is a sledge?
This form of writing was what cuneiform was based off of.
What are pictographs?
Craftspeople worked with these metals.
What is gold, silver, tin, lead, copper, and bronze?
This person had the duty to build and maintain ziggurats.
Who is the king?
These people built irrigation systems.
Sumerians expressed their religious beliefs in these buildings.
What are ziggurats?