Vocabualry
Location
Government
Achievements
Daily Life
100
the taming of wild animals
What is domesticate?
100
The Sumerians built their city in this ancient land
What is Mesopotamia?
100
A city and it's surrounding land that has their own ruler, army, and laws
What is a city-state?
100
This invention made it easier for Sumerians to transport heavy goods.
What is the wheel?
100

This class was make up of merchants, scribes, and farmers

Who is the middle class

200
These 280 laws united the empire of Hammurabi
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
200
These two rivers provided water and protection for the Sumerians
What are the Euphrates and the Tigris?
200
This person was in charge of ruling over the city-state
What is a king?
200
This inventions involved the used of wedge shaped symbols the represented groups of sounds
What is written language?
200
Sumerian women were allowed to own this
What is property?
300

This class was made up of kings, their families, and priests

What is the upper class or noble class?

300
Because of it's good soil, this land was refered to as
What is the fertile crescent?
300

Name the 3 responsibilities of the government in Sumer.

1. set laws

2. oversee building projects

3.defend their land

300
These charters were used in Sumerian writting
What is cuneiform?
300
This holy building was the center of Sumerian life
What is a ziggurat?
400
A group of different people and places under a single rule
What is an empire?
400

Mesopotamia was also known as 

The land between the rivers or The cradle of civilization

400
This is the reason kings went to war with other city-states
What is land and power?
400
This invention helped Sumerian keep their crops watered during the long, hot summers.
What is irrigation?
400
This group of children were only allowed to attend school if their parents were very wealthy
Who were girls
500

Various groups to which members of a society belong

What are social classes?

500
Today Sumer would be located in
What is Iraq or the Middle East?
500
This ruler created the first empire
Who was Sargon the Great?
500
This calendar was based on the cycle of the moon
What is the lunar calendar?
500
Sumerians believed this would protect them as long as they were shown the proper respect
Who were gods?
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