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What is the name of the large, farmable area called "the cradle of civilization?"
The fertile crescent
What was used to seal containers and sign documents?
A cylinder seal
What job did most Sumerians have?
farming
What are two important Sumerian inventions?
The wheel and writing
Which Biblical person came out of the city of Ur?
Abraham
What is a ziggurat?
A large stepped-pyramid shaped building, often with a temple at the top.
What are the names of the two rivers running through this area?
The Tigris and the Euphrates
Were boys educated or girls or both in Sumerian schools?
Boys
What do we call ancient people who have other jobs other than farming to stay alive?
skilled workers
What is irrigation?
The use of dams and canals to water crops
Who is Sir Leonard Woolley?
A British archaeologist who found evidence of a great flood in 1922.
What two architecture structures did Sumerians develop?
The arch and the dome
What word means "the land between the rivers?"
Mesopotamia
Who taught Sumerian pupils how to read and write?
The priests
Name three types of jobs other than farming that some Sumerians had.
Weavers, astronomers, sculptors, healers, priests, scribes, metal-smiths, potters, brewers, etc.
What is Sumerian writing called?
Cuneiform
Who is Lady Shubad?
A very rich woman who was buried with jewels and many servants when she died
What do modern day archaeologists recover from ancient cities?
Artefacts
What mountain did Noah's ark land upon?
Mt. Ararat
What was the name of the Moon god that the Sumerians worshipped?
Nanna
What do we call someone whose job it is to read and write official documents?
A scribe
What is a levee?
Building up the banks of rivers to prevent water from flooding the villages and directing the water to where they want it to go.
What was the name of the Sumerian King who ordered the ziggurat at Ur to be built?
Ur-Nammu
What were the two sections of Sumerian cities?
The residential area and the sacred area
What two famous cities were in Mesopotamia?
Babylon and Ur
What were the people of southern Mesopotamia called?
Sumerians
What are pictographs?
A form of writing that looks like pictures instead of words.
What land did God promise Abraham's descendants?
The land of Canaan
Why were there walls built around ancient cities?
To protect them from invaders
Which continents is the fertile crescent on?
Mostly Asia - some Africa
What does it mean when two ancient texts say the same or similar things?
Either one copied the other, or both are referring to an event that actually happened.
Did Sumerian people count in groups of 10 as modern people do? If not, what base did they use other than 10?
No. 12.
What do we call modern day people who study ancient artifacts?
Archeologists
How long did the Sumerian civilization last?
2,000 years