Religion
The temple tower built by the Sumerians to house the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
These V or U shaped architectural designs were usually found above doorways.
What is the arch?
The highest job held by any Sumerian man.
What is a king?
This was a combination of natural healing techniques and surgery.
What is medicine or a doctor?
An independent well protected walled city with surrounding farmland, bigger than cities had gates that closed during wartime for protection.
What is a city-state?
Kings and wealthy people placed these in their homes to honor the gods, and in hopes that the gods would bless them with long lives, many children, and a successful harvest.
What are Devotional Statues?
This invention helped make both travel and trade much easier and quicker.
What is the wheel?
This job gave someone the power to administer religious rights and ceremonies.
What is a priest?
These were played for entertainment and to obtain good luck.
What are games?
The first civilization, located in Mesopotamia
What is Sumer or Sumeria?
It was believed that the gods selected certain people to hold this very important, and powerful job in the city-states.
What are kings?
This invention is considered to be one of the most important, and has changed the way people communicate and keep records.
What is writing?
A highly sought after job, this required someone to write down laws, treaties, and religious texts.
What is a scribe?
This was used to calculate the surface area of farmers' field, as well as to weigh goods and counts bricks for buildings.
What is mathematics?
This invention brings water to the crops.
What is irrigation?
What was the name for the belief in multiple gods?
What is a polytheism?
This invention allowed Sumerians to trade with distant lands by increasing their ability to travel by water.
What is the sailboat?
This job was responsible for raising livestock.
What is a farmer?
Metalworkers made many things, including......
What are weapons, tools, luxury items, axes, knives, saws, hoes, mirrors, necklaces, and statues?
What is Babylonia?
Along with most homes, Ziggurats were built using this material
What are mud bricks?
This is the name of the writing system created by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
People who held this job were responsible for entertaining the people in their city-state in local places, such as a tavern.
What is a musician?
This invention was a musical instrument that looks much like the modern day harp.
What is a lyre?
Another name for Mesopotamia.
What is land between two rivers?