Written Language
The first writing system develop by Sumerian priest.
What is cuneiform?
Early Mesopotamian areas became these independent states with their own governments, laws and their own gods.
What is a city-state?
Early trading in Mesopotamia was depended upon these new trading technologies.
What are wheels and sails.
Large Sumerian cities contained these pyramid-shaped brick towers for their many gods.
What are ziggurats?
The Sumerian social order consisted of people within this number of social classes.
What are three?
Before the development of cuneiform, Sumerians used carved stones called this. pg. 131
What are seals?
In early Sumerian governments, these two entities depended on each other.
Who were the priest and kings?
King Darius created a common this, which was accepted as payment for goods across the Persian Empire.
What is currency?
Nebuchadnezzar build these elaborate gardens on a series of stone terraces.
Like many people, the Sumerians practiced this type of belief of more than one god.
What is polytheism?
This group of people develop the alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
The first law code was created by the king of this region.
What is Ur?
Because the Phoenicians relied on the sea for trade, they became experts of this, the art of steering a ship from place to place.
What is navigation.
Darius used Persia's great wealth to build these which were used for trading good and delivering tributes/
What are roads?
This Sumerian social class consisted of the ruler, the ruler's top officials, powerful priests, wealthy merchants, and owners of large plots of land.
What is the upper class?
The Phoenician alphabet had this number of symbols.
What is 22?
What is the rule of law?
Eventually Phoenician trading led to the development of these, areas ruled by a distant country.
What are colonies?
The Sumerians were the first group of people that carved statues of people that looked like this.
What is like real human beings?
The lowest class of people in Sumer were made up of these types of people.
Who were slaves?
This group of people were the first to adopt the Phoenician alphabet.
Who are the Greeks?
As the Persians took over Mesopotamia, King Darius established these type of governments as he divided up his empire into provinces.
What are local self-governments?
Other Mesopotamia people create these scriptures, where a scene sticks out from the surface of its base material.
What are relief sculptures?
Farmers and skilled workers made up this class of people.
Who are the middle class?