Trading and Art
Religion & Government
Education
Farming
Hodge Podge
100
A design pressed into softened tar
What is shell inlay?
100
City by the Euphrates River where Abraham was from.
What is Ur?
100
They were allowed to attend school.
What is boys of wealthy families?
100
Sumerians had 200 words for this animal.
What is sheep?
100
Men and women who study objects from the past to learn about the people who made them.
What are archaeologists?
200
Scribes used this to write on wet clay.
What is a stylus?
200
The temple tower.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The teacher of the school.
What is school-father?
200
Plant with long, thin fibers.
What is flax?
200
Man-made objects that give clues about the lifestyle of that time in history.
What are artifacts?
300
Skilled craftsmen
What are artisans?
300
The moon god of the Sumerians.
What is Nanna?
300
Assisted the Sumerian teacher by writing assignments for young students.
What is big brother?
300
The process of taking water from rivers and using it in farming.
What is irrigation?
300
British archaeologist who excavated the ancient city of Ur.
Who is Sir Leonard Woolley?
400
Wedge-shaped writing
What is cuneiform?
400
An independent city and its surrounding land.
What is a city-state?
400
Sumerian school building.
What is tablet-house?
400
Sumerian farmers were the first to use this.
What is the wheel?
400
The country that is now located where Mesopotamia once was.
What is Iraq?
500
Bright blue stone
What is lapis lazuli?
500
Greek word meaning "many gods."
What is polytheistic?
500
Wise sayings that schoolboys heard.
What is a proverb?
500
Ships from India and Egypt brought these in. Examples are stone, wood, gems, and metals to be used in Ur.
What are imports?
500
An archaeological dig to find artifacts and other clues about the past.
What is an excavation?
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