Government
The most powerful leader in a Mesopotamian state.
Who is the king (or lugal)?
True or False: Girls were allowed to go to school in Ancient Mesopotamia.
The name for Mesopotamia's writing system.
What is cuneiform?
Explain the look of women in Sumerian drawings.
What is drawn with ankle-length straight gowns and some sort of headdress?
True or False: Nanna was the Mesopotamian god of the moon.
What is "True"?
The term for an Ancient Mesopotamian king.
What is a "lugal" ?
True or False: Slaves were allowed to own their own homes in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is "False"? (slaves were not allowed to own homes.)
The name for an Ancient Mesopotamian temple.
What is a ziggurat?
Explain the look of men in Sumerian drawings.
What is drawn with bald heads and broad shoulders. Wearing skirt-like kilts?
True or False: Enki was the Mesopotamian god of the harvest.
What is "False"? (Enki was god of water)
Ancient Mesopotamia had this type of government.
What is a "monarchy" or "city-state government"?
True or False: Men and women wore make up and jewelry in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is "True"?
The nickname for Ancient Mesopotamia due to its early development.
What is the “cradle of civilization”?
Also accept - What is part of the fertile crescent?
Name one of the two main products Sumerians were famous for making.
What are wool cloth (woven from looms using sheep's wool)?
or
What are carved stone seals with the owner's signature or symbol (used as a trademark or signature)?
The god of heaven.
Who was An?
Ancient Mesopotamians believed their leaders were chosen by...
Who are "the gods"?
The three classes of Ancient Mesopotamian society.
What were aristocrats, working class, and slaves?
Mesopotamia invented many new tools. Name at least two of them.
What are the wheel, the architectural arch, the chisel, the saw, the lever, or the pulley?
Something unusual about the way men and women were drawn in Sumeria.
What was they were drawn in profile (from the side) with eyes wide open and staring straight ahead.
Give at least 2 things Mesopotamians wanted to know from their religion.
What are to answer questions about life and death, good and evil, and forces of nature?
Punishments in Ancient Mesopotamia were harsh and based on the idea of...
What is "an eye for an eye"?
Something the aristocracy did for fun and entertainment in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is listened to singers, musicians, and story-tellers?
What is played games (such as checkers and dice)?
What is watched boxing and wrestling matches
Explain something the Ancient Mesopotamians invented related to "time".
What is they created the first calendar (divided into weeks)? What is they came up with hours, minutes, and seconds (to divide the days)? What is they invented the first clock (a sundial)? What was the Mesopotamians developed astronomy charts that mapped the stars in the sky and thus the passage of seasons/time?
Give at least 2 of the art pieces found by archeologists in ancient Mesopotamia.
What are very detailed statues, jewelry, soldier’s helmets, bas-reliefs (carved into stone walls)?
Explain why Ancient Mesopotamians related closely to their gods (dingirs).
What is Sumerian gods looked like humans, acted like humans, had feasts, marriages, children, wars, and the gods could be jealous, angry, joyful, and/or kind?