Terms
The basic units of Sumerian civilization.
What is a city-state?
The land "between the two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
Year cuneiform was created in Sumerian society.
What is 3000 B.C.E.?
He wrote 282 laws spreading fear in Sumerian society.
Who is Hammurabi?
Sumerian economy was based on three key components.
What is farming, trade, and industry?
A group of states under a single authority.
What is an empire?
An area of fertile land in the Middle East, located around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the fertile crescent?
A sharpened reed to write on clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
Priests, officials, and royals made up a small group of the total Sumerian population.
What are nobles?
These supplies were used by Sumerians in everyday life.
What are stone, mud, clay, reeds, rivers, soil, and crops?
A government where priests rule in the name of a god or gods.
What is Theocracy?
Name the two major rivers that supported the development of the Sumerian civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The natural process of drying clay tablets in Sumerian society.
What is the sun?
They made up 90% of the Sumerian population by farming and serving the palace.
What are farmers and slaves?
This Sumerian invention impacted irrigation, milling, transportation, machinery, and pottery-making.
What is the wheel?
A society controlled by men, or a society that favors men. Women had very few privileges or rights.
What is patriarchal?
Someone who travels from place to place in search of fresh pasture and is considered a wanderer
What is a nomad?
Wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets-writing systems of Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
They worked for the nobles and palaces by holding occupations in farming, fishing, and crafting.
What are commoners and craftsmen?
The most prominent buildings in the city-states of Mesopotamia.
What are ziggurats?
A strict and harsh set of laws in ancient Mesopotamia was created by the Babylonian king Hammurabi.
Who is the Code of Hammurabi?
Landforms to the east and west of the fertile crescent causing the land to be unfertile.
What is a desert and mountain chain?
The first epic type of literature in Sumerian society.
What is a poem?
The roles and jobs of the social groups in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Sumerian Hierarchy?
Present-day Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?