Sumerian Contributions
Other Mesopotamian Civilizations
Rise of City States
Neolithic Revolution
Random Questions
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How did the ancient Sumerians organize their government?
Into city-states with a king as a ruler.
100
What Civilization is known for being the first people to believe in one god?
The Hebrews.
100
Why did the Sumerians move from the Zagros Foothills into Mesopotamia?
Because they ran out of fertile land and could not grow food.
100
What caused the Neolithic Revolution?
The Domestication of Plants and Animals and Farming.
100
What is Hammurabi known for?
His Code of Laws.
200
What is one Sumerian contribution that shows that the Sumerians had a division of labor?
Metalworking, Sailboat
200
What Civilization is known for their strong, fast ships and their excellent sailors?
The Phoenicians.
200
How did ancient Sumerians get water to their crops after they arrived in Mesopotamia?
By developing Irrigation systems.
200
Why did people build permanent housing?
Because they didn't have to travel to hunt and gather anymore.
200
Why did Nebuchadnezzar build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Because his wife missed trees and the green landscape of Persia.
300
What two important inventions allowed the Sumerians to grow more food?
Irrigation and the Plow.
300
What Civilization was known for Hammuraib's Code of Laws?
The Babylonians.
300
Why was it important that ancient Sumerians cooperate with each other?
Because if some Sumerians did not maintain their irrigation systems, it could affect other Sumerians irrigation and ability to grow crops.
300
How did settlements form?
People built permanent housing, had a stable food supply and the population increased.
300
What are the symbols that make up Cuneiform called?
Phonograms.
400
What were Sumerian temples called?
Ziggurats.
400
What Civilization was known for being cruel and spread rumors of their cruelty?
They Assyrians.
400
Why did ancient Sumerians begin fighting with each other?
They began fighting with each other over water.
400
What does specialization of labor mean?
Some people switch from farming to other kinds of work like metalworking, carpenters, doctors, judges, scribes.
400
Which two rivers border Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and the Euphrates.
500
Name three Sumerian contributions that can be considered part of a highly developed culture (#5 on the list of characteristics of a Civilization)?
Cuneiform/Writing, games, mathematics, music, the wheel.
500
What Civilization was known for their use of coins as money?
The Persians.
500
What did ancient Sumerians do to protect themselves?
They built walls around their City-states.
500
What did the settlements grow into?
City-States.
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What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
"Land between rivers"
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