Government
Social Structure
Writing
Art
Religion
100
Sumerian city-states are ruled by what?
What is kings.
100
What is a social structure?
What is includes different jobs and social levels.
100
Sumerians created a written language called what?
What is cuneiform.
100
Art includes what?
What is creative forms of expression such as painting, architecture, and music
100
Religious beliefs influenced when?
What is every part of daily life.
200
What people also help record laws.
What is Scribes.
200
How many classes were their in social structure?
What is 3.
200
When did cuneiform start?
What is around 2400 B.C.E.
200
What was another important art in Sumer?
What is music.
200
Sumerians expressed their beliefs by doing what?
What is building temples and religious towers called ziggurats.
300
Name 3 things that kings can do.
What is strengthens the social order, collected taxes, enforced laws, commanded armies.
300
What are 2 people that are in upper class?
What is landowners and priests.
300
When was the first recorded information on (not date)?
What is about gods.
300
Musicians played instruments like what?
What is drums and pipes.
300
How large, and wide could the ziggurats be?
What is they could be as large as 20 miles away and some were as high as 8 stories and as wide as 200 feet
400
What did the king officials do?
What is help the king with their duties.
400
What is one person that is in the common class?
What is craftsman.
400
How many symbols were there at first?
What is 2,000 symbols.
400
What was one favorite instrument called?
What is a lyre
400
What also expressed religious beliefs?
What is Sumerian statues.
500
Governors ruled what?
What is outlying towns.
500
What is at the bottom of the social structure?
What is slaves
500
What was BEFORE cuneiform?
What is pictographs.
500
Did kings and queens use it? (A type of musical instrument)
What is yes.
500
Were the statues detailed and lifelike?
What is yes.
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