Vocab
The Rise of Sumer
Later Empires
Contributions
Pot Luck!
100
A skilled worker.
What is an artisan?
100
Men who wrote in ancient times were known as these.
What is a scribe?
100
Sargon I's empire was called this.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
100
Mesopotamia is known as the "______ of civilization"
What is cradle?
100
A tall Sumerian temple in the middle of the city.
What is a ziggurat?
200
A city and surrounding farmland.
What is a city-state?
200
The Sumerians used these raised areas of soil to control the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What are levees?
200
This was Hammurabi's greatest contribution.
What is Hammurabi's code of law?
200
The Sumerian number system was based on this number.
What is 60?
200
The modern day country where Mesopotamia once existed.
What is Iraq?
300
An improvement.
What is a reform?
300
The Sumerians were polytheistic and had about this many gods.
What is 3,000 gods?
300
Hammurabi ruled for this many years. A long time for thousands of years ago!
What is 40 years?
300
The Sumerians were known for inventing this 360 degree innovation.
What is the wheel?
300
A pointed reed instrument used for writing.
What is a stylus?
400
A farm tool invented by the Sumerians.
What is the plow?
400
Sumerians built their houses out of this material.
What is mud brick?
400
This leader created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon I?
400
Sumerian hieroglyphics were invented for these two purposes.
What is keeping records and writing down laws?
400
This priest-king was the main character of his own epic. It is also known as the oldest story in the world!
Who is Gilgamesh?
500
A group of states/cultures under one ruler.
What is an empire?
500
The lives of men and women during Sumerian times were different than they are now. To divorce his wife, all a man had to do was say this.
What is "You are not my wife"?
500
The power of Sumer began to fade in this year.
What is 2400 B.C.?
500
The Sumerians invented a clock that ran on this.
What is water?
500
The exact date that the world became more awesome, and your history teacher was born. Coincidence? I think not.
What is July 24, 1984?
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