Landmarks
These run for approximately 1000 miles from southeast Asia to the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
They went to other lands in search of goods Sumerians needed.
Who were merchants?
The Sumerians developed these for water travel.
What are sailboats?
The Sumerians developed this based on the cycles of the moon.
What is a 12-month calendar?
The people of Sumer were organized into these.
What are social classes?
These developed in Sumer by about 3000 BCE.
What are cities?
Small particles of soil in the rivers are called this.
What is silt?
These protected the city-states.
What are walls?
Only these could enter the top of the temple.
What were priests?
The Sumerians created a number system based on this.
What is 60?
The first settlers arrived in Mesopotamia around this time.
What was 7000 BCE?
Mesopotamia means this.
What is "land between the rivers"?
The population of these was between 5000-20000 people.
What were city-states?
The worship of many gods is this.
What is polytheism?
In Sumer, you were probably one of these.
What is a farmer?
Blue stone brought back from modern-day Afghanistan.
What is lapis lazuli?
Extra amounts of food are called this.
What is surplus?
The earliest known writing system.
What is cuneiform?
A large temple built to honor the god of a city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
It was made up of merchants, farmers, artisans, and fishers.
What was the middle class?
Includes parts of present day Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
They dug canals to move water to the fields.
What is irrigation?
Those who could read and write were called this.
What were scribes?
The worship of one god is this.
What is monotheism?
A society dominated by men is this.
What is patriarchy?