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Name that Characteristic!
Geography
Sumeria
Culture
100
Rich soil left behind after a flood; great for wheat and barley
What is silt?
100
Sumerians dug irrigation ditches to carry water to their fields (name the characteristic)
What is advanced cities/technology?
100
Mesopotamia is now known as
What is Iraq?
100
Sumer is located on a flat area of land called
What is Fertile Crescent
100
the most powerful God in Sumerian culture
What is Enlil
200
Greek word for “Land between two rivers”
What is Mesopotamia
200
for defense they built city walls with mud bricks
What is advanced cities?
200
two rivers framing Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
200
What grain sustained the Sumerians
What is wheat
200
where Sumerians believed their dead went in the after life
What is "land of no return", gloomy death
300
A new product or idea spreading from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
300
Sumerians traded with others for stone, metal and wood
What is advanced technology?
300
first settled Mesopotamian region
What is Sumer
300
the first empire in Sumeria
What is Babylon Hammarubi's Empire after invading Sumeria....later created a code of laws
300
Who is at the top of Sumeria's social hierarchy
What are Priest/Kings?
400
Random: MAP QUESTION #5
What is Red Sea
400
Sumerians used organization, cooperation and leadership to develop laws
What are complex institutions?
400
Tigris and Euphrates flow into this
What is Persian Gulf?
400
Sumerian government was originally developed to control the following
What is public works projects, such as irrigation or building mud brick walls
400
Sumerians religious practice
What is polytheism?
500
a location where people follow the same law, have one form of government, share languages, religious beliefs, and ways of life.
What is a city-state?
500
Sumerians created the first system of writing known as "cuneiform"
What is record keeping?
500
3 environmental challenges for Sumerians
What are unpredictable flooding, no natural barriers, and lack of natural resources
500
Sumerians developed the following (at least 3 terms)
What is wheel, sail, plow, cuneiform/writing, maps, number system, bronze
500
What areas of life did Hammarubi's Code of Laws cover (3 terms)
What are theft, marriage, adultery, family, crime, murder