Achievements in Technology & Architecture
Agriculture
Geography
Achievements in Writing
Vocabulary
100
This invention allowed for faster and easier transportation on water by harnessing the power of the wind.
What is the sailboat?
100
This is the social studies term for planting, growing, and harvesting crops.
What is agriculture?
100
When the Tigris and Euphrates flooded, they deposited this into the surrounding soil, making it more fertile.
What is silt?
100
This is the name for the Sumerian writing system
What is cuneiform
100
This includes the inside of the city walls AND the surrounding farm land
What is a city-state?
200
This invention allowed for faster and easier ways to move heavy things from one place to another across land.
What is the wheel?
200
This is the term for when humans move water from one place to another, usually for agricultural purposes
What is irrigation?
200
Name TWO advantages a river gives to a civilization
transportation, trade, communication, fertile soil, irrigation, fishing, etc..
200
This is what the Sumerians used to make their marks for their writing system
What is clay tablet and a stylus?
200
This is the belief in more than one god or goddesses.
What is polytheism?
300
This large buildings were shaped kind of like a pyramid and were used as a temple.
What is a ziggurat?
300
This natural resource was a key factor that allowed for the rise of civilization, especially in Mesopotamia
What is a river? Bonus: name the two rivers located in Mesopotamia
300
In what present day country was the Sumerian Civilization located?
Iraq
300
Name and describe the system of writing in Ancient Sumer.
Cuneiform. They used clay tablets and a stylus to make wedge shaped symbols for words and sounds.
300
This is a type of irrigation; a HUMAN-MADE waterway, ditch, or stream
What is a canal?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!! This invention allowed the people of Mesopotamia to carve the land faster in order for them to prepare to plant their crops.
What is the plow
400
This was the main crop cultivated in the Fertile Crescent that is used to make flour, bread, and even beer.
What is wheat?
400
Without the Tigris and Euphrates, the area known as the Fertile Crescent would have been more like what?
Dry, desert, or infertile land
400
This is a person whose job it is to be able to read and write.
What is a scribe?
400
This is the science of building structures
What is architecture?
500
This is the metal Sumerians used for weapons?
What is bronze?
500
When a population has more food than it needs, we called it this.
What is a surplus?
500
What was the fasted way to travel in 3000BC?
boat
500
What is one purpose for having written language?
Easy communication, keep track of things (record data), post laws, etc...
500
FINAL JEOPARDY!!! Why is it important to preserve ancient artifacts and history?
We learn from our past and can make our future better by correcting mistakes and repeating positive achievements.
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