Key Vocabulary
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This level of culture includes easily observable elements like national flags, traditional clothing, and popular dishes.
What is surface culture?
This type of noun refers to a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
Individuals focus on specific tasks or professions, such as artisans, farmers, or priests, contributing to economic diversity and efficiency.
What is job specialization?
Jewish written law.
What is the Torah?
First written set of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This level of culture encompasses core values, beliefs, and worldviews, such as attitudes towards authority or the role of the individual versus the community.
What is deep culture?
Words that modify nouns.
What are adjectives?
The structuring of society into groups based on factors like class, race, or profession.
What is social organization?
An ancient work of literature that tells the story of the legendary king of Uruk and his quest for immortality.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
The universal message a story communicates.
What is theme?
This level of culture includes everyday behavioral norms such as greeting styles, concepts of punctuality, or dining etiquette.
What is shallow culture?
The flock of Seagulls disturbed her early morning run.
What is a collective noun?
Large-scale projects, such as roads, bridges, and dams, undertaken by a government for the benefit and use of its citizens.
What are public works?
Located in the southern Tigris-Euphrates region.
What is Mesopotamia?
"Love is a battlefield."
What is a metaphor?
What is shallow culture?
Scientists are currently trying to solve that problem.
What is a common noun?
Marked the transition from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled farming and the domestication of animals.
What is the Agricultural Revolution or Neolithic Revolution?
"Lord of the fish, during the inundation,
No bird alights on the crops,
Thou createst the corn, though bringest forth the barley,
Assuring perpetuity to the temples."
What is the Nile, or Hymn to the Nile?
"As master of energy, full of sweetness in his choice."
What is personification?
Returning a lost wallet.
What is deep culture?
Billy quickly ran to the store.
What is an adverb?
Hammurabi's Stele
What is art/architecture?
The original settlers in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?