Neolithic Southwest Asia
Sumerians
Accomplishments
Religion
Miscellaneous
100
The name for this area of the world where the first farming settlements began?
What is the Levantine Corridor?
100
The Sumerian people lived in what geographic area of Mesopotamia (North, South, East, West)
What is the South
100
This is the name of the writing system that was done to keep records, contracts, and taxation..
What is cuneiform?
100
Their stories myth influenced what other book?
What is the Bible?
100
This is the money given by a groom to the bride's family?
What is bride money?
200
The word Mesopotamia means this
What is the land between two rivers?
200
The sumerians created a number of these to begin civilizations?
What are city-states?
200
What is the name for the male dominated society they created?
What is Patriarchy?
200
This God sat next to Hamurrabi to give him the tools of Justice
Who is Shamash?
200
This was the worst crime for women to do in Mesopotamia?
What is adultery?
300
These two grains were predominant in the development of agriculture in the Near East
What are wheat and barley
300
Sargon the Great is best know for doing this to Mesopotamia?
What is unifying Mesopotamia?
300
Sumerian math and chronology were based on this number of units
What is 60?
300
The Tower of Babel represents/translates to this in Mesopotamian?
What is the Gateway to G-d?
300
This is the reason the Mesopotamian Gods created humanity
What is to do their work?
400
This event is where a glacial melt had caused a 1,000 year cooling spell and forced people to do more farming.
What is the Dryas Event?
400
This is the term for all writing that comes from a simplified picture
What is pictography
400
Their calendar was based on these type of months?
What is lunar months?
400
The Epic of Gilgamesh deals with mans search for this
What is immortality
400
Most people who became slaves was to pay back this
What is debts?
500
This is the name of the Hunter Gatherers who were forced to become more semi-permanent after cooler and drier conditions of the late Ice Age.
Who are the Natufians?
500
This is the name of the God who was unhappy human beings were not destroyed in the flood
Who is Enlil?
500
These are the two types of government they created?
What is a theocracy and kingdom-empires?
500
He was the person who ended the rule of priests as leaders in city states
Who is Sargon the Great
500
To Hammurabi, punishment was dependent on this
What is social rank?
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