Vocabulary
Characteristics
Inventions
Social Structure
Vocabulary 2
100
A society marked by arts, sciences, governments, and social structure
What is civilization
100
This characteristic deals with feeding the civilization
What is Stable food supply
100
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
What is technology
100
The way a civilization is organized
What is social structure
100
Writing that uses wedge shaped characters
What is cuneiform
200
This characteristic of a civilization deals with the organization of the civilization
What is social structure
200
This characteristic deals with the gods
What is religious system
200
This invention was used to crate a stable food supply
What is plow
200
Government officials, Kings and priest would be at the _________ of the social structure
What is Top
200
A person who makes money selling goods
What is merchant
300
Symbols that stand for words
What is pictographs
300
This characteristic deals with keeping order and control
What is governement
300
This invention was very good for crops
What is irrigation
300
These people are at the bottom of the social structure
What is Slaves
300
A person who writes, typically a government offical
What is scribe
400
Musical instrument made of wood. Often decorated and held together with strings
What is lyre
400
This characteristic deals with the poetry, music, paintings, and literature
What is the arts
400
This invention was used for building, an upside down U or V
What is arch
400
These people are in the middle of the social structure
What is merchants, craftspeople
400
An ancient temple in Mesopotamia for worshiping the gods
What is ziggurat
500
Another name for a merchant
What is artisan
500
This characteristic deals with keeping records and language
What is writing system
500
Part of the irrigation system that would keep the crops growing
What is canal
500
Draw the social structure triangle for Sumer
What is kings, craftspeople, slaves
500
A characteristic of civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society
What is culture
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