Rise of Sumer
B.C. and A.D.
Vocabulary
Geography
Hodgepodge
100
How was the rule of a priest-king passed on?
Hereditary
100
How many years passed between Caesar's murder (44 B.C.) and today?
2056 years
100
This person is skilled in a craft.
Artisan
100
Damascus is the capital of _______.
Syria
100
What other countries traded with Mesopotamia?
India and China.
200
Why did city-states go to war?
Fought over boundary lines, prove which state was stronger.
200
How many years passed between D-Day (1944 A.D.) and the sinking of the Titanic (1912 A.D.)?
32 years
200
Describe culture.
Way of life.
200
Mecca is located in ________.
Saudi Arabia
200
What did people call the reign of Hammurabi?
The Golden Age.
300
What rights did women have?
Buy and sell property, run businesses, own and sell enslaved people.
300
How many years passed between the first Olympics (776 B.C.) and the capture of Troy (1184 B.C.)?
408 years.
300
What is a group of states under one ruler?
Empire
300
Mesopotamia can be found mostly in modern day ______.
Iraq
300
What language becomes the language of the people under Sargon I's rule?
Akkadian.
400
Describe the structure of the city-states of Mesopotamia and how it was divided.
Made up of the city with farmland around it, surrounded by wall of sun-dried brick. Center of city = upper class, middle of city = middle class, outside/farmland=lower class
400
How do you determine the year difference between two B.Cs (or two A.Ds), and B.C. to A.D?
Subtract B.C. from B.C. (A.D. from A.D.), and add B.C. to A.D.
400
This person was one of the most famous priest-kings who performed great acts of courage.
Gilgamesh
400
This was the location where the first city-states developed.
Sumer
400
What was the purpose of the channels?
Water was used to irrigate crops.
500
What were the roles of the priest?
religion, controlled and administered the land in the gods’ name, ran schools
500
What does A.D. mean? Give both the Latin and the English meaning.
Anno Domini - In the year of our lord
500
What is a writer?
Scribe.
500
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into _______.
The Persian Gulf
500
How did Sumerian ideas and inventions get passed on?
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