Civilization
Time Periods and Stories
Sumer
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
What is a civilization?
What is a complex society?
100
The first long poem that was written in cuneiform.
What is "The Epic of Gilgamesh?"
100
Two kinds of crops that the Sumerians planted.
What are barley and dates?
100
Another word for domesticate
What is "to tame?"
100
Gilgamesh searched the world in order that he might have found this.
What is immortality or eternal life.
200
The world's first civilization was __________.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
True or false? The gods thought that Gilgamesh needed to be brought down to size, so that created Sargon the Great.
What is false?
200
These are the THREE levels of social classes in Sumer.
What are the upper, middle, and lower classes?
200
These were people who moved from place to place.
What were "nomads?"
200
Which of the seven continents is an island?
What is Austrailia?
300
What are the six characteristics of civilization?
What are: art, organized governments, religion, social classes , writing, and cities?
300
This is another name for the age of "hunters and gatherers."
What is the Neolithic Age?
300
True or false. Hieroglyphics was the most important invention of the Sumerians.
What is false?
300
When Paleolithic people learned how to make this, they could eat cooked food; have light at night; stay warm and scare wild animals away.
What is fire?
300
The seven continents are:
What are North America, South American, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Austrailia?
400
______________ and ____________ are the two rivers that Mesopotamia lies between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
Another name for the Paleolithic Age is this.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
400
Four inventions of the Sumerians are:
What is cuneiform, wagon wheel, stylus, plow, writing number based on 60, geometry, 12 month calendar, sailboat.
400
Long periods of extreme cold on Earth was called this.
What is The Ice Age.
400
The mountains that separate Europe and Asia?
What are the Ural Mountains?
500
True or False. Mesopotamians irrigated the land by building swimming pools, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
What is false?
500
The are the first four time periods in order.
What are the Paleolithic Age, the Ice Age, The Neolithic Age, and the Bronze Age?
500
This collection of laws was used to govern city-states in Summer, and it was named after the king who wrote them.
What is The Hammurabi Code?
500
I am the capitol of Sumer.
What is Ur?
500
Gilgamesh was king of this city-state in Sumer.
What is Uruk?
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