Sumerian facts
A society that has excess food may develop into this.
Civilization
Who was in the lowest class in Sumer?
Enslaved people
A kind of writing that uses a symbol to stand for an object is called a...
Pictograph
Sumerians invented this important tool to help carry people and stuff
wagon wheel
Who invented the 60-second minute and the 60-minute hour?
Sumerians
What were skilled workers in ancient Sumer who made metal products, cloth or pottery called?
Artisans
A water control system that supplies water to farmland is called...
irrigation
Sumerian writing was written on what?
clay tablets
Sumerians invented this important tool that helps farmers break up the soil.
the plow
The Sumerians invented a number system based on what number?
60
The invention and use of tools to make life easier is called...
technology
Chariots were used for...
Warfare
What's another word for record keepers, a job that people could have if they learned how to write?
scribe
A chariot is a kind of...
wheeled vehicle
An independent city that governs itself is called a...
city-state
Who was in the highest social class of the people of Sumer?
Rulers
The name Mesopotamia means...
Between 2 rivers
Sumerian writing was called
Cunieform
Sumerians invented this form of math to measure fields and put up buildings.
geometry
The word polytheistic means...
to worship many gods.
A Ziggurat is a...
Temple
The area of land that made up Ancient Mesopotamia is called...
The Fertile Crescent
What tool was used to write Sumerian writing?
a sharp-ended reed, or,
stylus
Sumerians invented this, which helps people move faster and easier on water.
Sailboat
The Sumerians invented the idea of a circle having this many degrees.
360