Geography
First Civilizations
Advanced Technology
Society
Religion/Leaders
100
the fertile area around a river
What is a floodplain?
100
a city and its surrounding areas
What is a city-state?
100
the way the Sumerians watered their fields using ditches
What is irrigation?
100
had more rights than in later Mesopotamia
What are women?
100
the highest ranking ruler in Sumer
What is a king?
200
the land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
200
a culture that has developed into cities
What is a civilization?
200
the basis of our system of time
What is the number system based on 60?
200
materials used to make Sumerian homes
What are mud and reeds?
200
the center of life in ancient Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
300
the fertile soil deposited by floods
What is silt?
300
people who specialize in writing and record keeping
What are scribes?
300
the first invention to help farmers
What is the plow?
300
led to specialization so people could become highly skilled in making things
What are surpluses?
300
the belief in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheism?
400
climate of hot dry summers
What is arid?
400
the reason the Sumerians developed a writing system
What is to keep records?
400
first form or writing used to keep records
What are pictographs?
400
most Sumerians were in this social group
What is a middle class?
400
had connections to the gods
What are the priests/priestesses?
500
a long period of little or no rainfall
What is a drought?
500
the current day country where Mesopotamia once was
What is Iraq?
500
wedge-shaped symbols used by ancient Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
500
the way Sumerians got stone, wood, and copper
What is trading or trading with SW Asia?
500
located at the top of a ziggurat to worship the gods
What is a shrine?
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