Vocabulary
Sumerians
Mesopotamia
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a belief in more than one God
What is polytheism?
100
the two rivers that the earliest known civilization developed between
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
This controlled ALL aspects of life
Who is religion?
100
What is a scooter?
100
A person who studies planets and stars.
Who is an astronomer?
200
a pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top
What is a ziggurat?
200
farmers used ____________ to irrigate the land.
What is floodwaters?
200
One of the first rulers over people
What is priests?
200
Who is Ida B. Wells?
200
Who is Cleopatra?
300
a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes or streams
What is irrigation?
300
Since food became plentiful, not all people needed to farm. So people got jobs; which is called
What is division of labor?
300
This civilization trait is all about power, people, policy, and protection
Who is government?
300
A payment made to the government
What is taxes?
300
This brought wealth to the ancient world.
What is trade?
400
a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
400
This was one of the many inventions of the Sumerians. Round and round.
What is the wheel?
400
This Babylon king created the first written laws
Who is Hammurabi?
400
Groups of people divided into an upper, middle and lower class.
What is a social class?
400
The movements to Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
What is
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
And eyes and ears and mouth and mouth and nose.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, knees and toes?
500
a long poem that records details of a real hero
What is an epic?
500
a system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge shaped marks.
What is cuneiform?
500
True or False: Mesopotamia was in the Paleolithic Era
False
500
Ms. Demming's birthday
What is December 24th?
500
Ms. Demming's favorite color
What is blue?