Review: Fertile Crescent
Review: Sumerian Civilization
Other Writing Systems
Evolution of Writing
Modern Alphabet
100
Sumerians developed a new system for watering crops.
What is irrigation?
100
Sumerian temples were called _____.
What is ziggurat?
100
The transfer of ideas from one culture to another
What is cultural borrowing?
100
Pictures that represent objects
What are pictographs?
100
A small set of letters or symbols, which each stand for a single sound
What is an alphabet?
200
Sumerians' new agricultural techniques allowed them to grow a lot of extra crops and food.
What is surplus?
200
Sumerians made advances in these two academic subjects.
What are math and astronomy?
200
The Mayans had a writing system based on this type of writing.
What are hieroglyphs?
200
A ______ can be combined in different ways to make any word.
What is an alphabet?
200
All alphabets today came from this civilization's alphabet.
Who are the Egyptians?
300
Extra food meant that people could have different jobs besides farming.
What is division of labor?
300
Name 2 Sumerian technological advances.
What are the plow, wheel, sail, potter's wheel, bronze, or glass?
300
A picture representing a word, syllable, or sound
What is a hieroglyph?
300
Cuneiform comes from the Latin word for "_____."
What is "wedge-shaped"?
300
The Egyptians reduced hundreds of symbols down to a set of # symbols, which stood for consonants.
What is 24?
400
Mesopotamia is also known as the ____ _____ and the _____ of _____.
What are the Fertile Crescent and Cradle of Civilization?
400
By studying astronomy, Sumerians developed this invention to help them know when to plant and harvest.
What is the calendar?
400
Name the three civilizations historians think may each have invented writing.
Who are the Sumerians, Mayans, and Chinese?
400
Sumerians reduced the number of symbols in their writing system from 2,000 to #.
What is 600?
400
Who adopted whose alphabet? Name the civilizations in order: Romans, Phoenicians, Greeks, Egyptians.
Who are the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans?
500
Extra food meant the growth of Sumerian cities and the surrounding land and villages.
What is a city-state?
500
Kings took over priests' old jobs, like building these 3 public works.
What are canals, roads, and temples?
500
Historians think Mayans invented writing independently because the area where they lived is on the other side of the world from Sumer.
What is Mesoamerica?
500
Sumerians were able to reduce the number of symbols in their writing system by having symbols stand for _____ instead of words.
What are sounds?
500
What are the 2 changes the Greeks made to the Phoenician alphabet?
What are giving letters names and adding vowels?