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100
This is the revolutionary invention that allowed easier transportation, among many other things.
What is the wheel?
100
These temples were made from mud bricks. They had several levels, each smaller than the last.
What are ziggurats?
100
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
These were the two rivers near Sumer.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
This Sumerian craft used a variety of metals, and was very popular with Sumerians.
What is jewelry?
200
This invention allowed Sumerians to grow crops more efficiently.
What is irrigation?
200
This was the number of floors most commonly found in Sumerian homes.
What is 1?
200
Each city-state had one of these to protect it.
What is a god or goddess?
200
Sumer was located in this part of Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
The only people who could keep records for kings and priests.
Who are scribes?
300
These animals were often used to transport goods by Sumerians.
What are donkeys?
300
Cities used these to protect from intruders and to keep the city from growing.
What is a city wall?
300
The main temple to the gods of the city.
What is a ziggurat?
300
Southern Mesopotamia is now a part of this country.
What is Iraq?
300
Traders did this as a result of trade routes being good targets for robbers.
What is traveling in groups?
400
This was the name for the style of writing that was written with a reed.
What is cuneiform?
400
Every Sumerian city had at least one of these.
What is a public square?
400
This is the reason why royal servants were killed when a king died.
What is company in the afterlife?
400
This river flooded a lot.
What is the Euphrates river?
400
These were the people who conquered the Sumerians.
Who are the Elamites?
500
Sumerian boats were made of these.
What are bundles of reeds tied together?
500
These buildings were located at the edge of cities.
What are workshops and homes?
500
These were the three most important Sumerian gods.
Who are An (the sky god), Enlil (the air god), and Enki (the water god).
500
The coastline of this ocean has changed greatly since Sumerian times.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
282 laws were written in this set of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?