Geography
It means "the land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
What is polytheism?
Another name for "extra," and it usually applies to extra food.
What is surplus?
Who was the "Big Man?"
It is used to both make pots and build homes
What is clay?
How Sumerians overcame the challenge of having little wood for building homes
What is: they made sun-dried clay bricks
The sharpened reed used as a Sumerian carving pen
What is a stylus?
He stomped on wool to soften it up before selling it.
What is a fuller?
This special group of people were almost as powerful as the Big Man and could communicate with the gods.
Who were the priests?
They needed to be imported to create the Standard of Ur
What were precious and semi-precious stones, or jewels
The body of water into which the Sumerian rivers emptied
What is the Persian Gulf?
In addition to priests and government officials, they were in the highest social class and protected the Big Man.
What were soldiers?
The most common animal herded by Sumerians
What is sheep?
Each Sumerian city-state worshipped one of these, believed to keep their homes safe.
What were patron gods or goddesses?
Sumer's two main exports
What are wool and grain?
What is the Tigris River?
Wedge-shaped writing
What is cuneiform?
This invention made it easier for farmers to dig into hard-baked clay
What is a plow?
A Sumerian city and its surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
Without them, wagons, carts and even chariots couldn't move from place to place.
What are wheels?
The name of at least one Sumerian city-state.
What are Uruk, Ur, Eridu, Lagash, Larsa, Kish...
It's only 22 inches long, but it tells us most of what we know about Sumer's social classes.
What is the Standard of Ur?
One of the grains grown in Sumer
What is wheat or barley?
One of the tasks that government leaders organized workers to complete.
What are dig / repair canals or build ziggurats?
Some goods were imported from faraway lands on the other side of this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf or the Indian Ocean?