Vocabulary
city-state
surplus
过剩
bronze= _____ + _____
tin + copper
Among Sumerian social classes, the top class was _____
King (and priests)
Who is Gilgamesh?
King of Uruk
cuneiform
楔形文字
底格里斯河
Tigris River
_______ is the southernmost part of Mesopotamia
Sumer
Why Sumerian priests tried to please their gods?
to make them happy so they won't do bad things to people.
According to the cuneiform tablets, Sumerians divided 1 year into ____ months
12
scribe
抄写员
priest
祭司，神职人员
Which animal helped Sumerians to cultivate crops?
ox (cattle 牛)
（ox-driven plow）
Sumerian city-states built city walls to __________?
protect people of the city-states from attack
Whose job was to write the cuneiforms?
scribes
ziggurat
神塔
pictograph
象形文字
_______ system helped Sumerians to solve the flood and drought problem
Irrigation
Name 3 kinds of people that were in the middle classes of Sumerian.
Administrators, scribes, merchants, artisans, farmers(commoners).
Sumerains wrote cuneiform on _______
clay tablets
crescent
Monotheism
一神教
name at least 3 Sumer city-states.
Ur, Uruk, Umma, Lagash, Susa, Kish, Nippur......
Before the king enter the shrine, he need to do the ______
cleansing or purification
The God who created the world was called
Marduk