Background of Culture
Communications
Political Orgnaizations
Food clothing and shelter
Family and Kin
100
This was the topography of the land in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is low and flat?
100
Before a writing system was developed Sumerians told stories in this way.
What is orally.
100
This is what ancient Mesopotamians call a tell.
What is a build-up of refuse?
100
This is the material that most of the Sumerian clothing was comprised of.
What is wool?
100
This was a women's role in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is taking care of the children and housework?
200
The earliest Sumerian civilization existed during this time.
What is 5500 B.C.
200
This man is featured in both the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Epic of the Flood.
Who is Utnapishtim?
200
This caused more conflict/war in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the establishment of city-states?
200
This is what was different between the homes of farmers and the homes of townspeople.
What is a one-room home verses a home with several rooms.
200
This was a man's role in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is providing for the family through labor.
300
This is the river that often flooded causing problems for the Sumerians.
What is the Euphrates?
300
One is told as a narrative the other involved supernatural beings.
What is a legend verses a myth?
300
These are pros and cons of having a wall around the city-state.
What are keeping the city-state safe but preventing growth?
300
This is the material that Sumerian houses were made out of and for this reason.
What is mud so the walls would be thick and keep out the heat.
300
The Sumerians celebrated a marriage with this.
What is a big feast in honor of the couple?
400
This is the artificial way the Sumerians controlled these floods.
What is developing an irrigation system?
400
These were three main uses of writing.
What is tax records/legal documents , stories, and laws?
400
This is what ancient Mesopotamian armor is made of.
What is leather?
400
This is where a Sumerian kitchen was located.
What is in the courtyard.
400
These people had to agree to have a couple get married.
Who are the parents of both the bride and the groom?
500
This is what women wore.
What is layered kilts and shawls?
500
This poem is a long account of a hero's journey.
What is an Epic?
500
This natural resource was the most common cause for conflict in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is water/rivers?
500
A Sumerian King had a special helmet made of this material.
What is electrum (gold and silver mixed).
500
These people were responsible for arranging the marriage.
Who are the parents?
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