Advancements
This invention allowed people in Mesopotamia to communicate.
What is writing?
What is the term for the leader of Sumer?
What is King?
Where was Mesopotamia located?
What is the Middle East
(Fertile Crescent)
What grain did farmers grow?
What is wheat?
What was the type of religion practiced in Sumer?
What is polytheism?
This basic shape was invented in Sumer.
What is the wheel?
How many levels of social classes existed in Sumer?
What is a name given to the region Mesopotamia existed in?
What is...
1. The Fertile Crescent
2. The Middle East
3. The Cradle of Civilization
What did the rivers do to support agriculture?
What is flood yearly
What is the meaning of "pictograph"?
What is "picture writing"?
A writing system developed by the Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?
Who was included in the upper class of society?
Who are kings and priests?
Why was living by a river important?
1. Travel
2. Transporting goods
3. Access to water
What happens during a drought?
Crops do not grow and people starved.
What gods were worshipped?
What are the gods of the sky, wind, foothills, and water.
This architectural form, a tiered pyramid-like temple, was built by Mesopotamian cities for religious purposes.
What is Ziggurat?
Why were priests so important?
Where in Mesopotamia was the first civilization?
What is Sumer
What did the floods bring, and why was it important?
What is silt to fertilize the land
What number was the base of their numeric system?
What is 60?
This scientific/engineering practice used canals, levees, and basins to control river water for cities and fields.
What is irrigation systems?
How many laws were in the Hammurabi Code?
what is 282?
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is The Land Between Two Rivers
Farmers used this tool, pulled by animals or pushed by people, to turn soil for planting (two-word answer).
What is Animal-drawn plow? (simple plow)
What did the gods look like?
The gods looked like people