The Sumerians
About how long were the Sumerians in Mesopotamia before the Akkadians took over?
What is 2000 years?
How does irrigation work?
What are canals?
What did the Sumerians use to write cuneiform?
What is (wet) clay?
True or False: The Sumerians invented our modern alphabet.
What is false?
About how many laws are in Hammurabi's code?
What is 300?
True or False: The Sumerians had a proper empire with a centralized government?
What is false?
What does irrigation do?
What is control water(flow)? What is water plants far away from a river?
What does cuneiform look like?
a. like squares with lines
b. like triangles with lines
c. like circles
What is B?
What part of math did the Sumerians develop?
What is roots? What is basics?
What does the "an eye for an eye" expression refer to?
What is revenge?
When did the Akkadian's take control of Mesopotamia?
BONUS (extra 500 points): What year exactly did this happen?
When is the 24th century?
BONUS: 2340 BC
Where was irrigation most popular?
Where is South Mesopotamia?
What other civilization used pictographs as a form of writing?
What are the Ancient Egyptians?
What are 3 other things that the Sumerians also invented? (not including writing, math, or irrigation)
What is city-states, civilization, time system, the calendar year, large-scale religion, astronomy, the wheel.
What are 3 of the topics in Hammurabi's code?
What is family, marriage, revenge, stealing, slavery, false accusations, professions, trade.