General
Religion
Gods/Goddesses
Inventions
Could Be Anything
100

The area where Mesopotamia was located in the middle east.

What is the Fertile Crescent?

100

The belief in multiple gods. 

What is Polytheism?

100

The god of heaven and the goddess of earth.

Who are An and Ki?

100

The form of writing invented by the Sumerians. 

What is Cuneiform?

100

The mother goddess. 

Who is Nammu?

200

The three rivers in the fertile crescent. 

What is the Nile River, the Tigris River, the Euphrates River?

200

A large temple in the center of a city-state, shaped like a step-pyramid with a flat top. 

What is a Ziggurat?

200

The god of air and storms who had a tablet that told the future. 

Who is Enlil?

200

The cart like Sumerian invention that would be used in military parades and is pulled by horses. 

What is a chariot?

200

The most famous King from Sumer who is the subject of one of the oldest surviving works of literature. 

Who is Gilgamesh? 

300

A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. 

What is a city-state? 

300

The Ziggurat that is dedicated to the god Nanna.

What is the Great Ziggurat of Ur?

300

The goddess of love and war whose symbols were an eight pointed star and lions. 

Who is Inanna?

300

The two things the Sumerians learned to mass produce. 

What are pottery and bricks?

300

The god of the moon whose symbols were the moon, bulls, and lion-dragons. 

Who is Nanna?

400

What the Sumerians called their land, meaning Country of the Noble Lords.

What is Kengir?

400
How the Sumerians believed the earth came into being. 

What are cosmic births?

400

The god of the sun.

Who is Utu?

400

The piece of farm equipment invented by the Sumerians that tills the soil. 

What is the plough?

400

TRUE or FALSE: The Sumerians invented the wheel. 

FALSE

500

The three titles the Rulers of Sumer would go by. 

What is Lugal, En, and Ensi?

500

The place where all mortals went when they died where they could only eat dry dust.

What is Kur?

500

The god of water, art, and science who filled the rivers with fish. 

Who is Enki?

500

The process of moving water from the source to farm land and other places. 

What is Hydraulic Engineering/ Irrigation? 

500

The year when Sumerians were officially wiped out. 

What is 1750 BCE?

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