Characteristics of
Civilization
Vocabulary
Artifacts
People of Sumer
Random
100
The plow is related to which characteristic?
Technology or stable food supply
100
Who makes money by selling goods?
A merchant
100
What artifact is made of wood and decorated with pieces of shell?
Standard of Ur
100
Who led the army?
King
100
What came first pictograph or cuneiform?
Pictograph
200
A lyre is related to which characteristic?
the Arts (or highly developed way of life)
200
What is an ancient Mesopatmian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top?
Ziggurat
200
Which artifact was a small copper statue that had 2 wheels?
Chariot
200
Who wrote down the laws?
Scribe
200
What is the most important Sumerian invention?
Wheel
300
Cuneiform is evidence of which characteristic?
Writing
300
What is a symbol that stands for an object?
Pictograph
300
What artifact was gold and might have been used at banquets?
Gold cup
300
Who were the upper class? (3 answers)
priests, landowner, government officials
300
What invention is used to prepare the soil for planting?
The plow
400
Ziggurats are evidence of which characteristic?
Religion
400
What is writing that uses a wedge shaped stylus?
cuneiform
400
Which artifact only had cuneiform etched in it?
Clay tablet
400
Who ruled the outlying towns?
Governors
400
Before the wheel, people dragged their goods on flat bottomed carts called...................
sledges
500
Social levels of the people of Sumer are related to which characteristic?
Social Structure
500
What is the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes?
technology
500
Which artifact was a stringed musical instrument?
Lyre
500
Besides professional soldiers, who served in the army during times war?
Farmers
500
What added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings?
Arches
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