Ancient Mesopotamians, Sumerians to be particular, possessed these physical attributes.
What are dark features?
100
The ruler who controls the state and supples the community with food and water.
Who is the king?
100
These were believed to control every aspect of life.
What are gods/goddesses?
100
Picture writing.
What is a pictograph?
100
These ancient schools were used to teach children how to read, write and do math.
What are tablet houses?
200
This Middle Eastern river flowed from the Zagros Mountains and many (including Ms. Domnitz) believe it overflowed in the springtime.
What is the Euphrates River?
200
Scribes went around serving the King to make sure these were properly paid. They were paid with anything from food to jewelry to working for the government.
What are taxes?
200
During this event, people are buried in simple holes, sometimes wrapped in reed and sometimes with their possessions.
What is a death ritual?
200
Wedge-shaped writing used in early Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
200
The only writing utensil in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a reed?
300
This desert is south of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Syrian Desert?
300
One of the goods Sumerians commonly traded.
What is barley or wool or woolen clothes?
300
When their masters died, they were killed and buried with them.
What are servants or slaves?
300
The Mesopotamian version of the modern day pencil.
What is a stylus?
300
The way teachers can know when the school day is done.
What is watching the sun?
400
The Tigris and Euphrates empty into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
The class which consisted of farmers and slaves.
What is the Wardu?
400
A structure with three levels. It is the biggest structure in each city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The reason writing initially evolved.
What is record keeping?
400
The way students learn to write on clay tablets.
What is copying down something over and over again after a scribe teaches the the student?
500
This small settlement is believed to be the first city-state in 5500 BCE.
What is Eridu?
500
Otherwise known as "dubsar," these males came from rich backgrounds and had the most important job (other than the king or priest) in Sumer.
What are scribes?
500
Because Sumerians could not pray all the time, they left these to pray for them.
What are votive statues?
500
A written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation.
What are logograms?
500
The way people in ancient Mesopotamia choose who to marry.