Geography
Rise of Sumer
Sumerian Achievements
Later Peoples
Vocabulary
100
The large arc of rich, fertile farmland that extended from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and included Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
People who performed religious ceremonies and occupied a high level in Sumer's social hierarchy.
Who are priests?
100
The science of building.
What is architecture?
100
The set of letters created by the Phoenicians that formed the basis for the one we use today.
What is the alphabet?
100
Human-made waterway.
What is a canal?
200
The region between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
This included a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
200
The world's first writing system developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
200
The ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
200
A long poem about one or more heroes.
What is an epic?
300
Floods on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers brought ________ which made the land fertile.
What is silt?
300
Refers to the countryside.
What is rural?
300
A pyramid-shaped temple built by Sumerians.
What is a ziggurat?
300
This is the first collection of written laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
The division of society by rank or class.
What is social hierarchy?
400
This helped to control water and bring it to crops.
What is irrigation?
400
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
Sumerian professional writers.
What are scribes?
400
Hammurabi's Code was a set of many of these that were written down for all people to see.
What are laws?
400
An arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is a division of labor?
500
This first ability allowed early civilizations to develop in Mesopotamia.
What is farming?
500
A legendary figure in Sumerian literature and the hero of a famous poem.
Who is Gilgamesh?
500
This was invented by the Sumerians to break through the hard clay soil to prepare it for planting.
What is the plow?
500
Sumerians developed a number system based on this number.
What is 60?
500
The abundance of food grown in the Fertile Crescent produced this.
What is surplus?
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