The Land Between Two Rivers
Independent Sumerian States
Daily Life in Sumer
Mesopotamian Achievements
Potpourri
100
Mesopotamia is the land located between these two rivers
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers
100
What is another word for gods?
Deities
100
innovations
What are new ways of doing things?
100
What is amount of time it took to become a scribe?
12 years
200
The four ways in which people learned to deal with droughts and floods.
What are irrigation, stored water, put up dikes, and built dams?
200
What is the belief in many gods?
Polytheism
200
What is the reason the Sumerians offered gifts to the deities?
They hoped the deities would protect them from natural disasters
200
What are the four AGRICULTURAL techniques that helped Mesopotamians produce economic surpluses?
irrigation, bronze-tipped plows, funnels for seeding, and shade planting
200
Tribute
What is a required payment from one ruler to another?
300
A culture that formed in southern Mesopotamia around 5000 B.C.
What is Ubaid?
300
What is the reason Sumerians were able to perform work other than farming?
They produced economic surpluses.
300
What are the three social classes of Sumerian society and who resides in each class?
High class = priests, kings, nobles, and military leaders Middle class = merchants, scribes, craftworkers, farmers Lower class= slaves
300
What is the largest and tallest building in every city-state?
ziggurat
300
standing army
What do you call a permanent army of paid soldiers
400
High, flat land
What is a plateau?
400
What is governing system ruled by a king or queen?
monarchy
400
What are the rights of Sumerian women?
They can own property, run businesses, divorce cruel husbands, and train to be priestesses and scribes
400
What are the three new forms of transportation that changed people's lives?
Wheels, caravans of donkeys, and boats. all increased trade and made travel easier.
400
What is a collection of laws that changed old laws that were unfair and made clear laws that were confusing?
Code of Hammurabi
500
Eridu, Uruk, Kish, and Ur
What are the first cities of southern Mesopotamia?
500
What did all city-states have in common?
Religious practices, language, and writing system.
500
What is the way carpenters contributed to trade in Sumer?
built wooden boats which increased trade
500
What is a writing system based on wedge shaped forms?
cuneiform
500
What is are the seven gods worshipped by Mesopotamians?
Sun, moon, salt-water, fresh-water, sky
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