Sumerians
The name meaning "land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
A name for a religious leader.
What is a priest?
A sharp, pointed writing tool.
What is a stylus?
The Sumerians invented this thing for traveling on water.
What is the sailboat?
The type of material Akkadians used for their weapons.
What is bronze?
A city surrounded by villages on the surrounding land that was also it's own "country."
What is a city state?
A place in which to honor gods and pray.
What is a temple?
The name for the line and wedge-shaped Sumerian writing.
What is cuneiform?
The Sumerians invented this farming device.
What is the plow?
To change the words of one language into those of another.
What is to translate?
A bank of earth that keeps a river from overflowing.
What is a dike?
To honor and praise a god.
What is to worship?
The world's oldest known written literature which talks about a great flood.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The Sumerians were the first people to put these on carts.
What are wheels?
A way of doing something or a plan for doing something.
What is a system?
A term meaning lawful or based on the law of the government.
What is legal?
A religious building like a pyramid with a base and four sides and a top smaller than the bottom.
What is a ziggurat?
The most important Sumerian invention.
What is writing?
A device used to make pots.
What is a pottery wheel?
The first leader of the Akkadians, who united the city states of Mesopotamia.
What is to translate?Who is Sargon I?
The names of the two rivers running through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The main type of material used for buildings and homes in Sumeria.
What are adobe, clay, or mud bricks?
The most important invention in history.
What is farming?
Invented by Sumerians, these are two things that are added to buildings to help people climb or go through openings in walls.
What are ramps and arches?
The year marking the beginning of Sargon I reign.
What is 2340 BCE?