Religion
Who is Ishtar?
This is when people began living in cities, with Uruk the most influential.
What is the Uruk period?
This is where in the world Sumer is located.
Where is Mesopotamia or the Fertile Crescent?
This invention was created by the Sumerians, is circular, and is used all the time.
What is the wheel?
This is the first story ever written down.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This is the Sumerian god of air, wind, and storms.
Who is Enlil?
This is when Ur became the main power of Sumer.
What is the Third Dynasty of Ur?
This is what Sumer was made up of.
What are city-states?
This is the type of writing Sumerians used.
What is cuneiform?
In the Sumerian creation myth, this is what the world began as.
What is water/ocean?
This is the Sumerian king god, the god of the sky, heavens, constellations, and kings.
Who is An?
This is who conquered the Sumerian city-states and united them into the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon the Great?
These are the two rivers that Sumer is surrounded by.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This invention changed the way people communicate.
What is writing?
This was the first law code ever to be written.
What is the Code of Ur-Nammu?
This is the fake mountain that Sumerians made to be closer to their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
This is when villages just began forming, and this time period was named after the pottery found.
What is the Ubaid Period?
This city takes over Sumer, turning Sumerian land into their land.
What is Babylon?
What is a log?
This is the type of government that Sumer had, where government was intertwined with religion.
What is a theocracy?
This is what Sumerians believed about the afterlife.
What is that it was a shadowy version of life?
This is when Kings began ruling each of the city-states.
What is The Early Dynastic Period?
This is the Sumerian city that Abraham was from.
What is Ur?
This is what the Sumerians used to make houses, nails, and artwork out of.
What is clay?
This is the age that Sumer existed during.
What is The Bronze Age?