Kings, priests, and wealthy property owners were members of this class.
What is the top class?
100
The Sumerians developed one of the first systems of writing.
What is cuneiform?
100
The Sumerians believed in ______________ gods.
What is many?
200
The first inhabitants of Mesopotamia.
What is the Sumerians?
200
Controlled political and military life.
What is the king?
200
Skilled workers, merchants, and farmers were part of this group.
What is the middle class?
200
The Sumerians wrote of clay tablets for this reason.
What is it was plentiful?
200
The belief in many gods is called this.
What is polytheism.
300
A city and the area it controls.
What is city-state?
300
The king of Uruk. He was part human and part god.
What is Gilgamesh?
300
The enslaved people made up this class.
What is the bottom of the class system?
300
This happened to the students at the scribe schools if they misbehaved.
What is they were caned.
300
A pyramid-shaped tower that had a shrine on top.
What is a ziggurat?
400
Mesopotamia is located in this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
400
He ruled his people with fairness.
What is Hammurabi?
400
These people were captured in war.
What is enslaved?
400
This was used to write on the clay.
What is a stylus?
400
For this reason, the Mesopotamians built high walls around their cities.
What is the threat of hostile invaders?
500
Mesopotamia is sometimes called this because of its shape and fertile soil.
What is fertile crescent?
500
This group of people were trained to be society's record keepers and meet the different needs of the temple, the royal government, and the business world.
What is scribes?
500
These people were part of the top social class.
What is kings, priests, or wealthy property owners?
500
This word means "wedge shaped".
What is cuneiform?
500
Because of this, the Mesopotamians built and maintained irrigation canals for local use.