Cuneiform
What is cuneiform?
Cuneiform is the system of writing(the first writing)
What is a Stylus and what did it contribute to Mesopotamia?
Stylus is a writing utensil or a small tool used in mesopotamia for scorching letters on wax-covered tablets, having a blunt end for obliterating the letters.
1: True or False, Ziggurats are mostly found in Rome
Answer:False
What is social classes?
Social classes are groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society.
What shape is it?
It is a crescent like shape.
Cuneiform symbols were made with wedge shaped marks on clay tablets (TRUE or FALSE)
True
What three(3) other things now can be classified as a typle of stylus?
Answer: Pen, Needle, Hand
The ziggurat was made to honor who?
a.)The king
b.)The priests
c.)The artisans
d.)The main gods of the cities
Answer: The main gods of the cities
Which is an element of civilization?
a.)Cuneiform
b.)Dykes
c.)Conquest
d.)Religion
Answer: Religion
What are the benefits?
It helps in irrigation and agriculture because it supply's sumerians with soil and water.
Who developed the system of writing?
a.) Babylonians
b.) Sumerians
Answer:Sumerians
What did the Sumerians use to produce cuneiform?
a.)poles pulled by animals
b.)A net woven from reeds
c.)a wedge-shape stylus
Answer:a wedge shaped stylus
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Who was allowed in the Ziggurat?
a.)Talon
b.) Kings and priests
c.) Artisans
d.) Everyone could enter if they wanted to
Answer: Kings and Priests
What makes a successful civilization?
Large population centers; (2) monumental architecture and unique art styles; (3) shared communication strategies; (4) systems for administering territories; (5) a complex division of labor; and (6) the division of people into social and economic classes.
Where is it located?
Fertile crescent is located in southern Iraq Egypt and etc....
Cuneiform started out using simple pictures or pictograms.(TRUE or FALSE)
Answer:True
Rearrange the letters and say the sentence or word correctly.The first team who gets it correctly gets 100points.🏆
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Answer:A stylus is a writing utensil or a small tool
(True of False),Huge religious monuments built in the ancient mesopotamia valley to worship animals were called Ziggurats.
Explain your answer(100pts)
Answer:False
Explanation: The mesopotamians worship the gods not animals.
Which set of words are the seven(7) civilization?
a.) Cities, Religion, Government, Culture Social classes, Writing and Job specialization
b.) Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Rome, Ancient India, Mesopotamia and Babylon
c.)Art, Wheel, Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Technology and Writing
d.)All of the above
Answer:B
Why is the Fertile crescent named the way it is?
Answer:It is because of it's rich soil
To preserve the writings, Sumerians
a.)Dried the tablets using natural winds
b.)Put the tablets under water
c.)Baked the clay tablets in the sun
d.)Baked the tablets in the oven
Answer:Baked the clay tablets in the sun
(True or False)Mesopotamia was the only civilization to make a stylus?
Answer:False
Does ziggurats still exist(Yes or No)
Answer:Yes
Identify why fresh water was important to a civilized society.
a.) Society believed it was the cure to all diseases
b.)It cleansed eye and make you can see again because the gods blessed it.
c.)Fresh water symbolized purity among whoever possed it.
d.)It gives you water to water crops and catch fishes.
e.)All of the above
Answer:D
What happened to the Fertile crescent overtime?
Answer:The fertile crescent eventually drifted from the water caused by land projects causing the Tigris-Euphrates river system to dry up.