Timeline Review
Social Classes
Achievements
Fertile Crescent
Vocabulary
100
B.C. and B.C.E.
Before Christ 


Before Common Era (more politically correct)

100
Bottom of the social classes.
What is slaves?
100
Definition of achievement.
What is an aspect that a person or group does that accomplishes something to help him/her or them?
100
Two rivers are located in Mesopotamia. 


How were rivers used by people?

What is Tigris and Euphrates?


What is bathing, drinking, water crops, food, transportation?

100
Social hierarchy.
What is different levels of authority based on wealth/power?
200
A.D.
What is Anno Domino?
200
How did the King find his soldiers?
What is the King was able to find anyone that was a commoner to fight for his army. This includes farmers, slaves, craftsmen, etc.
200
This invention helped the Sumerians keep track of events and religious ceremonies.
What is a calendar?
200
Name a city located within Mesopotamia.
What is Ur, Sumer, Urk, Babylon?
200
Social class.
What is a group of people with similar traits/aspects that make them who they are based on power.
300
C.E.
Common Era
300
Scribes had important jobs as Sumerians. What was their job?
What is read and write? They wrote first laws down. Only ones who could read/write. Considered upper class.
300
What achievement help travelers on the rivers and seas to go faster?
What is the sail?
300
The definition of fertile soil.
What is soil that is rich with nutrients and helpful to grow crops?
300
Civilization
What is a group of people who are advanced as a society with an organized government, religion, art, jobs, etc.
400
Difference between the dates 3200 BC and 3000 BC. What would you do and what is the answer?
What is subtract? What is 200 years difference?
400
Priest jobs were very important. What was the job of a Sumerian priest?
What is communicate to the gods?
400
Sumerians created the plow. What was the importance of the plow?
What is be able to dig through hard soil and to plant easier?
400
What was used to help water crops from the two major rivers?


What is irrigation?
400
City-State
What is an independent state that is surrounded by land and villages?
500
The difference between the dates 1800 AD and 100 BC. What would you do? What would the amount be? 
What is add the two numbers? What is 1900 years?
500
List the social classes in order from most power to least.
What is Kings, Priests, Scribes, Soldiers, Farmers, and Slaves?
500
List all six achievements Sumerians created.
What is plow, sail, irrigation, cuneiform, calendar, and wheel?
500
What country is Mesopotamia located within?
What is Iraq?
500
Irrigation

What is to water crops by bringing in water from pipes, canals, sprinklers, or other man-made means, rather than relying on rainfall alone?

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