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Family and Kin
Arts and Aesthetic Values
Attitude Toward the Unknown
Food clothing and shelter
Recreation
100
These people were supposed to look after the children and the house.
Who are the women in Mesopotamia?
100
Given that necklaces were so heavy with precious metals and stones, a ____________ was placed on the back.
What is weight?
100
These buildings were built out of mud bricks to honor the Gods and Goddesses of the selected city.
What are Ziggurats?
100
Sumerians made their clothes from this.
What is wool?
100
Gilgamesh was written about in this famous tale.
What is epic of Gilgamesh?
200
The people who get to inherit their father's property and goods after the father's death.
Who are the eldest sons in Mesopotamia?
200
__________ was another precious material used for jewelry, but it was also used for small vases and bottles.
What is blown glass?
200
This is the God that Gilgamesh prayed to in the famous epic.
What is Shamash?
200
The Sumerians drank this drink all of the time.
What is beer.
200
This sport provided both sustenance and entertainment.
What is hunting?
300
One of the most important things to women and children in Mesopotamia.
What is family life in Mesopotamia?
300
This stone was used in much of Mesopotamia's jewelry and seals. It was very valuable at the time.
What is lapis lazuli?
300
These people believed they should be buried with their possessions from life.
Who are the Sumerians?
300
Sumerians homes were made of this.
What are mud bricks and reads?
300
This sport appeared depicted on both terra-cotta plaques, and in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
What is wrestling?
400
A tradition in Mesopotamia where people would elope without knowing each other until the day of the marriage.
What is arranged marriage in Mesopotamia?
400
___________ is a mixture of gold and silver usually used for helmets.
What is electrum?
400
This is the name of the city that has the most famous tombs. They were excavated by Leonard Woolley in the 1920s.
What is Ur?
400
In Ancient Sumer, farmers traded this (something that we would not normally trad today.)
What is leftover food?
400
These symbolic tales of the distant past have to do with the origin of nature and can be connected to beliefs or rituals.
What is a myth?
500
What the higher class Mesopotamians did during a holy day or after a victory in war.
What is feasting with the King in Mesopotamia?
500
Sumerian jewelers knew a way of working with gold called __________. This was when tiny balls of gold were made and then fixed to something else.
What is granulation?
500
This is the name of the Goddes of Ur.
Who is Nanna?
500
Men wore these down to the knee.
What are kilts?
500
These three toys are examples of toys used by children in ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the spinning top, rattles, jump ropes, puck and mallet, hoop, balls, and the buzz or button?