Advanced Technology
Record Keeping
Specialized Workers
Complex Institutions
Advanced Cities
100

This allowed trade to prosper in Sumeria - it was used to carry extra wheat to other city states.

What is  the cart?

100

The first evidence of writing is from Sumeria. True or False?

True 

100

what kind of specialized worker made bricks for the ziggarats ?

What are brick makers?

100

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?

100

We live in this advanced city.

What is the Oakland?

200

This was used my Sumerians to help dig rows into the ground for farming.

What is the  plow?

200

what did they use to write on ?

clay tablets

200

These people sell stuff

What is merchant

200

They were at the top of Sumer society 

Who are the high priests and nobles?

200

This advanced city is home to the Golden Gate Bridge .

What is San Francisco?

300

The Sumerians had invented these to help with trade. they then used them  for warfare.

What are sailboats - made from Reeds

300

Why did they need to record things?

Because the traded alot.

300

These people write down everything - religious laws , regualr laws, records .

What is a Sumerian scribe or writer?

300

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

300

Cities were actually the birthplaces of the first civilizations. true or false?

True 

400

Sumerians were the first to create weapons from the same metal used in this penny.

What is copper

400

 which is usually faster to write?  A pictograph (like a detailed drawing) or a cuneiform ( a symbol)?

 Cuneiform

400

These people start up companies

What is Entrepreneurs

400

This class worked and lived on farms.

What is  the peasant class

400

Sumerians had city states  True or False

TRUE

500

The Sumerians made this:

What are cuneiforms?

500

Cuneiforms were used for religious purposes as well as an ancient form of what?

What is a receipt?

500

These people rule on criminal cases

What is judges

500

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?

500

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?