Sumerian definitions
Artificial waterway for boats or for draining and irrigating land.
What is a Canal?
This is the hemisphere in which Mesopotamia lies.
What is the North Eastern Hemisphere?
The Sumerians used this for business dealing.
What is the writing system?
The Sumerian homes were built in this system.
What is a grid system?
A plant that is made into strips and pressed into material on which one can write.
What is papyrus?
Mesopotamia stands for this.
What is the land between two rivers?
The Sumerians developed a number system based on this number.
What is 60?
The Sumerians and Akkadians practiced polytheism, the worship of this.
What is the worship of many gods?
Supplying with water by artificial means.
What is irrigation?
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers?
The Sumerians began writing at around 3200 BC for which reason.
What is the collection and distribution of food supplies in the cities?
The Sumerians believed that these well-being people were responsible for the fertile land.
What are the gods?
Earth matter or fine sand carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
What is a Silt?
This particular climate represents the Mesopotamian land.
What is an Arid/dry climate?
Name two things the Sumerians recorded on stone tablets about the people of Sumer.
What are Letters, legends, dictionaries and histories, mathematical and medical texts?
The Sumerians believed that kings were chosen by these type of people.
What are gods?
This is a term that ancient Egyptians used as the official name of their land.
What is Khemet?
This Mesopotamian resource allowed enormous surpluses to be generated.
What is very fertile soil?
Without scribes, the Mesopotamians wouldn't be able to do this.
What are write/read letters, cuneiform would not be carved into royal monuments, stories would have been told and then forgotten?
This was the consequence when one man has taken out another mans eye.
What is their eye will be taken out?