To ensure that all people of a society have the food they need to survive.
What is a Stable Food Supply?
100
This got it's start making dishes and like things
What is the wheel?
100
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top.
What is a Ziggurat?
100
The gods favorite guy.
Who is the king?
100
The land between two rivers
What is Mesopotomia
200
This political structure is headed by the king.
What is the Government
200
This comes from the latin word 'wedge.'
What is the stylus?
200
A characteristic of civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or a group of people.
What is culture?
200
I record laws for the king and keep track of trade.
What is a scribe?
200
The region between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent
300
Sumerians used this to keep information on the goods people exchanged.
What is advanced written language?
300
A symbol that stands for an object.
What is a pictograph?
300
A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government and social structure.
What is a civilization?
300
I live toward the center of town in a large two-story home.
What is a government official, priest or landowner.
300
The present day location of Sumer
What is Iraq?
400
The creation of a stable food supply made it possible for people to engage in different kinds of jobs.
What is Social Structure?
400
A wooden box with strings, often beautifully decorated with precious stones and carvings made of horn.
What is the lyre
400
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.
What is technology?
400
I often have to work to repair the irrigation system. In times of war, I am forced to serve in the army.
What is a farmer?
400
One who moves from place to place with no permanent home.
What is a nomad?
500
Sumerian potters and pottery makers used this to shape clay pots.
What is the wheel?
500
This was the Sumerians' greatest architectural achievement.
What is the arch?
500
A person who makes money by selling goods.
What is a merchant?
500
I work with metals such as gold, silver, tin lead, copper, and bronze. I also make swords and arrowheads for the army. I make tools, like plows and hoes, for farmers.
What is an artisan?
500
This characteristic of civilization influenced every part of daily life and bound the people together in a common way of life.