Geography
Inventions
Gilgamesh Vocabulary
Class System
Education
100
The name of the two rivers where the Sumerians lived.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates river?
100
This was first created to help with pottery but was later attached to carts to help move large objects.
What is the wheel?
100
The word for an unmarried lady.
What is maiden?
100
What is the name of a person who is owned by another?
What is slave?
100
This was used to record information during Mesopotamia.
What is pictographs?
200
A self contained urban center with its own ruler and government.
What is a city-state?
200
This is the type of writing that uses wedge shapes.
What is cuneiform?
200
To take something away quickly and without warning.
What is seize?
200
These people were usually government leaders along with religious leaders.
Who are priests?
200
This is the place were school was held?
What is the ziggurat?
300
This is the tribe that is credited for the ruler creating Hammurabi code.
Who are the Babylonians?
300
This was a type of metal that was discovered to help make tools and weapons.
What is cooper?
300
When your hair is messy and untidy.
What is unkempt?
300
The people believed cities had been created by these.
What are deities? (goddess/god)
300
These are three things students would learn at school.
What is reading, arithmetic, medicine, science or engineering?
400
This group's leader is credited for creating the Charter of Human Rights.
Who are the Persians?
400
This is a farm tool created to help farmers move soil and plant seeds.
What is a plough?
400
When something is very good.
What is splendid?
400
This refers to the term where a king had the right to rule as they were closest to god or chosen by gods.
What is the divine right of kings?
400
These were the only people allowed to go to school.
Who are wealthy boys?
500
This is the name of building often found in the middle of the city that was used as a temple.
What is the zuggarat?
500
This was an object to help Sumerians heat their homes. It was made from animal dung burning in metal containers.
What are braziers?
500
When something is very important or precious to you or to a religion?
What is sacred?
500
Women were given this when the married, so they would have money to spend on what they wanted.
What is a dowry?
500
The name of a story that survived from Mesopotamia about one of their god-kings.
What is the legend of Gilgamesh?
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