Where it's at!
Who's that?
What They've Got!
Religion and Worship
What did They Do?
100
This modern day country contains most of what we recognize as Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq
100
Were able to attend school in Sumer.
Who are boys from wealthy families?
100
Were use as the paper of that time, to record marriages and business transactions. DD!
What are clay tablets?
100
Was the center of worship and took up one-fourth of the city.
What is the ziggurat?
100
A student who wrote out assignments for young students to copy and the check their work. DD!
Who is a "big brother"?
200
The land marks that gave Mesopotamia, meaning "Land between rivers", its name.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
200
Would use a stylus to record sales, marriages, adoptions, and all other official business.
Who are scribes?
200
Farmers in Sumer were likely the first to use it.
What is the wheel?
200
Lived at the temple and used the offerings to perform magic rituals or to meet their own needs.
Who are priests and priestesses?
200
They harvested it from a plant and used to make cloth. DD!
What is flax?
300
The rivers surrounding Mesopotamia run into it.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
Skilled craftsmen who turned raw materials into finished goods.
Who are artisans?
300
They used these as their signature.
What are cylinder seals?
300
There was one at the top of the ziggurat. DD!
What is a small shrine?
300
The process of taking water from the river and using it farming.
What is irrigation?
400
Runs along Mesopotamia's southern or lower region.
What is Euphrates River?
400
Those in charge of discipline in Sumerian schools.
Who is "the man in charge of the whip"?
400
A Sumerian school building.
What is a tablet-house?
400
Comes from the Greek word meaning "many gods".
What is polytheistic? or polytheism?
400
A wedge shaped writing used by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
500
An independent city and its surrounding lands.
What is a city-state?
500
The British archaeologist who excavated Ur in 1922.
Who was Sir (Leonard) Woolley?
500
"A sweet word is everybody's friend" is one example. Sumerian schoolboys heard many of them.
What are proverbs?
500
Believed that their city-god did not care about their everyday needs.
Who are the Sumerians?
500
A design pressed into softened tar.
What is a shell inlay?
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