Life in Ancient Sumer
This was uncontrollable in the River Valley
What is Water Supply?
This lays between the Tigris and Euphrates river
What is Mesopotamia?
The Sumerians believe that these people were chosen by gods to rule in their place
What are kings?
All civilizations have this
What is a religious system?
The Sumerians used this to define someones social status
What is a Social Pyramid?
These rivers were the reasons why the civilization of Sumer was able to flourish
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
Wheeled vehicles pulled by horses
What are chariots?
Buildings that allowed Sumerians to express their religious beliefs
What are ziggurats?
These people were involved in administration and a city's bureaucracy and didn't often work with their hands
What are Nobles?
The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates river left this behind
What is silt?
These people helped record laws
What are scribes?
This was the favorite Mesopotamian beverage for the commoners
What is beer?
This is located in a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East
What is Sumeria?
Sumerian kings enforced these
What are laws and collected taxes?
Mesopotamian commoners were also these
What are carters, brick makers, carpenters, fishermen, soldiers, tradesmen, bakers, stone carvers, potters, weavers, and leather workers?
Northern Mesopotamia is made up of these
What are hills and plains?
A Sumerian army included both of these
What are professional and temporary citizen-soldiers?