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Misc.
100
Sumer developed near these two rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
As villages grew into cities, society and culture grew more complex. These changes led to the development of ____________, an advanced form of culture
What is civilization?
100
Sumerian religion is based on a belief in many gods and goddesses. This is called....
What is polytheism?
100
Sumerian culture was divided into several _________
What is classes?
100
Sumerians were among the first to use this metal
What is bronze?
200
Mesopotamia means...
What is "land between two rivers"?
200
Sumer is a region in this area.
What is southern Mesopotamia?
200
First leaders of city-states
What are priests?
200
People in the lowest social class
What is slaves?
200
Sumer is located in this modern day country
What is Iraq?
300
Mesopotamia had this type of climate
What is semiarid?
300
Self-ruled communities including a city and its nearby farmlands.
What is a city-state?
300
Place of worship in city-states
What is a ziggurat?
300
The role of women in Sumer
What is a)upper-class women were priestesses b) landowners, merchants, artisans, c) most raised children.
300
The Euphrates and Tigris rivers flow into this gulf.
What is Persian Gulf?
400
This is a flat land bordering the banks of a river.
What is a floodplain?
400
Most city-states were located on fertile land near the mouths of these two rivers?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
400
These replaced priests as rulers of city-states
What are kings?
400
Sumerians invented these two things to improve farming
What is the plow and the wheel
400
Sumerians developed math to do this
What is record crops and trade goods?
500
a) Mesopotamians traded their surplus grain for b) What does surplus mean?
a) what is stone, wood, and metal b)more than you need for basic survival
500
The five traits of civilization are
What are advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology?
500
Sumerians thought gods protected against...
What is flood, drought, and invasion?
500
Writing system developed in Sumer and what it was first used for
What is cuneiform and for business?
500
These people had the job of writing and recording
What are scribes?
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