Religion and Jobs
Achievements
Social Structure
Civilization
Vocabulary
100
Sumerians believed in
What are many gods?
100
It was used to make tools and weapons
What is metal?
100
System where people were treated differently depending on their wealth and status
What is a social structure?
100
A society that has a developed government, social structure, arts, and sciences
What is a civilization?
100
A society has enough food for its people.
What is a stable food supply?
200
A temple with an outside staircase and a shrine at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
200
Invention that increased speed in planting fields
What is a plow?
200
3 groups of people at the top of the Sumerian social structure.
Who are priest, kings, and government officials
Bonus: Nobles
200
The characteristic of civilization seen in this image.
What is the development of the arts?
200
the way civilization is organized
What is social structure?
300
A business person; a person who sells things
What is a merchant?
300
A written symbol that stands for an object.
What are pictographs?
300
People captured by the Sumerians in war.
Who are enslaved people?
300
5 characteristics of civilization.
What are a system of government, a religious system, a social structure, a writing system, and development of the arts.
Bonus: Technology, stable food supply
300
A kind of writing that uses wedge-shaped characters?
What is cuneiform?
400
A person who makes objects; a craftsperson.
What is an artisan?
400
The Sumerians' greatest technological invention.
What is the wheel?
400
3 groups of people belonging to the middle class
Who are merchants, artisans, and farmers?
Bonus: Fishers
400
The beliefs and behaviors of a society.
What is culture?
400
The use of tools or inventions for practical purposes.
What is technology?
500
A person who writes.
Who is a scribe?
500
A great, lasting achievement of the Sumerians
What is the first written language?
500
Ancient Sumerians that worked a variety of jobs.
Who are women?
500
The reason Sumer developed into a civilization.
What is the ability to maintain a stable food supply?
500
A person who wrote down laws for the government.
What is a scribe?