Geography
Name the two rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
What is one thing that the Sumerians invented that we still use today
the wheel
Advanced cities had....
protection
temples
What is the most important building in a Mesopotamian city-state
Ziggurat
The Sumerians invented the ______ that they used for a plow and pottery.
wheel
The land between two rivers is....
Mesopotamia
Bronze
Name any job of a specialized worker
potter
weaver
builder
priest
judge
a city and its surrounding farmlands protected by a large wall
city-state
Pottery was needed for storing _______ of food (the extra food)
surplus
What did they use the rivers for?
Travel
watering crops
There wasn't many building materials in Mesopotamia, so they made bricks out of ______
Mud
complex institutions are...
religion
government
school
army
who is in the top class of Sumerian society
priests
kings
Sumerians invented ________ called cuneiform.
writing
the fine soil deposited on the floodplain of a river
silt
Why did they set up irrigation canals?
so they could water the crops
For keeping records the Sumerians wrote in ___________________, wedge shaped writing
cuneiform
most people in Sumer were in the in-between class, made up of _________ and __________.
farmers
artisans
A ________ was a person who went to school to learn how to write in cuneiform
scribe
The climate in Mesopotamia was ________ which means HOT and DRY
semiarid
Mesopotamians traded their EXTRA grain for stone and wood. This EXTRA grain was called a ______
surplus
Advanced technology would be
bronze tools
irrigation canals
there were NOT slaves in Sumer, Mesopotamia
TRUE or FALSE
False
trades and crops