What is one characteristic that all civilizations must have to ensure the people survive?
(A stable food supply)
(The plow)
(Priests, kings, nobles, government officials)
100: Who ruled Sumerian city-states?
(Kings)
(The wheel)
What did Sumerians build to overcome environmental challenges like flooding?
(Irrigation systems)
(Canals, dams, and reservoirs)
200: Where did the middle class, like merchants and artisans, live in Sumerian cities?
(At the edges of the city)
(That their gods supported the kings)
(Cuneiform)
(Ur, Lagash, Uruk)
(Animal horns or pointed sticks)
(Mud-bricks)
(Ziggurats)
(Clamped pieces of wood)
(The Standard of Ur)
(Oxen)
(Enslaved people)
(Foot soldiers and chariot drivers)
(Pictographs)
(Stable food supply, social structure, government, religion, arts, technology, writing)
(It sped up the process of preparing land for planting, making farming more efficient.)
500: What were some of the luxury items that skilled metalworkers made?
(Mirrors, jewelry, swords, arrowheads)
500: What purpose did statues in Sumer often serve?
(They expressed religious devotion, showing people worshipping gods.)
500: What other major architectural innovation, aside from the wheel, did Sumerians develop?
(The arch)