Irrigation
Sumerian Social Class
Sumerian Achievements
Hammurabi's Laws
Challenge
100
A way to bring water to areas of land to make it more fertile.
What is irrigation?
100
This person was at the top of Sumerian social class.
Who is the king?
100
Sumerians created a form of this and called it cuneiform.
What is writing?
100
This is the amount of the laws in Hammurabi's Code.
What is 282?
100
This is the modern day country where Mesopotamia was.
What is Iraq?
200
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
This group of people were at the bottom of the social class.
Who are slaves?
200
This invention helps break up hard soil.
What is the plow?
200
This well known saying originates from Hammurabi's Laws.
What is "an eye for an eye"
200
Before farming this is what societies were considered.
What is hunter-gatherer societies?
300
From flooding, this material is a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
300
This group of people are below the king in the social hierarchy.
Who are priests?
300
After Sumerian's development of the wheel, they invented this to make pottery.
What is the potter's wheel?
300
Not only were the laws important, but the laws were written down. What is the importance of having written laws?
People all across Mesopotamia could read and follow the laws.
300
These two seas border the west and southeast coasts of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea?
400
This is another name for the area of land Mesopotamia is on.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
This group of people are between traders and slaves in social status.
Who are laborers and farmers?
400
Sumerians divided a circle into this many degrees.
What is 360 degrees?
400
This did not matter when punishments were given.
What is social class?
400
This consists of a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
500
These are human-made waterways that connect large storage basins to smaller ditches.
What are canals?
500
Sumer is a land of different territories and people under a single rule, or also known as...
What is an empire?
500
This tool allowed people to mark their property.
What is a cylinder seal?
500
The laws covered several things, name two.
What is trade, loan, theft, marriage, injury, or murder.
500
Sumerians believed in this, or what is known as believing in many gods.
What is polytheism?
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