Sumerians
Civilization
Vocabulary
Challenge
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100

What is cuneiform?

What is a type of Sumerian writing that uses a triangular shaped wedge.

100

What is your social class?

What is how you are socially.

100

What are pyramid shaped temples?

What are ziggurats.

100

King of Babylonia.

What is Nebuchadnezzar the 2nd.

100

What is Mesopotamia?

What is a land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

200

Why is Mesopotamia a good place to grow crops? 

What is rich soil and silt from flooding rivers.

200

What are public works?

What are large projects used to benefit the community.

200

Who invented the alphabet?

What a the Phoenicians.

200

Babylonian gate.

What is the Gate of Ishtar.

300

What is Polytheism?

What is a belief in more than one god.

300

Name an example of a system of writing.

What is cuneiform.

300

What is a city-state?

What is an independent state that consists of a city and its surrounding territory.

300

What is a colony?

What is a group of people in a new territory that ties to a distant state.

300

What is an empire?

What is a state containing several countries or territories

400

What are 2 land features that gave Mesopotamia its name?

What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

400

Town or _______.

What is a city.

400

To transport water to crops is to _______.

What is irrigate.

400

A spread of culture traits.

What is cultural diffusion.

400

This is a ruler.

What is a king.

500

Who served a role between Sumerians and their gods?

What are priests.

500

Name the 8 features of civilization.

cities, job specialization, arts and archetecture, established religion, social classes, public works, system of writing.

500

This is a system of trade that does not use money.

What is barter.

500

Creator of large set of laws.

Who is Hammurabi.

500

What is the great sea also called?

What is the Mediteranean Sea.

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