Vocabulary
A professional writer
Who is a scribe?
An ancient region between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
The first city in Sumer
What was Ur?
A city with its own traditions and its own government and laws
What is a city-state?
The two major rivers of the Fertile Crescent
The Tigris River and Euphrates River?
A stranger coming to a Sumerian city would first notice a giant stone building at the center of the city
What is a ziggurat?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
The name of the first Sumerian city-state.
What is Ur?
On hot nights, people slept outdoors on these
What is their homes' flat roofs?
A legend that explains people's beliefs
What is a myth?
Today, the area of the fertile crescent is known as this?
What is Southwest Asia.
Musicians, acrobats, beggars, and water sellers
What were sights and sounds of a Sumerian street?
The site of the earliest known civilization located in Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
The land that stretched in an arc, or crescent shape, from Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
What was the Fertile Crescent?
Sumer fell to a northern rival in 1759BC
What was Babylonia?