This allowed trade to prosper in Sumeria - it was used to carry extra wheat to other city states.
What is the cart?
The first evidence of writing is from Sumeria. True or False?
True
what kind of specialized worker made bricks for the ziggarats ?
What are brick makers?
Within these cities Sumerians created complex institutions such as -____________. Our vewrsion of this is democracy. The Sumerians had a theocracy which means the land wsa run by priests.
What is government?
We live in this advanced city.
What is the Oakland?
This was used my Sumerians to help dig rows into the ground for farming.
What is the plow?
what did they use to write on ?
clay tablets
These people sell stuff
What is merchant
They were at the top of Sumer society
Who are the high priests and nobles?
This advanced city is home to the Golden Gate Bridge .
What is San Francisco?
The Sumerians had invented these to help with trade. they then used them for warfare.
What are sailboats - made from Reeds
Why did they need to record things?
Because the traded alot.
These people write down everything - religious laws , regualr laws, records .
What is a Sumerian scribe or writer?
The civilization of ancient Sumer was composed of 12 major city-states. City-States were similar to cities today where they were allowed to make some of their own rules but has to also follow the central king priest's rule. True or false?
True
Cities were actually the birthplaces of the first civilizations. true or false?
True
Sumerians were the first to create weapons from the same metal used in this penny.
What is copper
which is usually faster to write? A pictograph (like a detailed drawing) or a cuneiform ( a symbol)?
Cuneiform
These people start up companies
What is Entrepreneurs
This class worked and lived on farms.
What is the peasant class
Sumerians had city states True or False
TRUE
The Sumerians made this:
What are cuneiforms?
Cuneiforms were used for religious purposes as well as an ancient form of what?
What is a receipt?
These people rule on criminal cases
What is judges
This class in Sumerian civiliztion started as prisoners from other city states that they invaded. They had no rights and did much of the hard labor.
What are slaves?
A growing city that is the center of trade for a larger area, and has surplus.The opposite of a non- advanced city.
What is an advanced city?