Geography
This was the name of the writing system invented by the Sumerians originally meant to help them keep track of their goods.
What is Cuneiform?
The people who lived in the Zaggros Mountains faced this challenge.
What are food shortages?
This was the name of the king who first united the Sumerian City-States under the Akkadians.
Who was Sargon?
This made the soil very fertile in Mesopotamia.
What is silt?
What did Mesopotamians originally use to build houses and walls?
Mud bricks
In the plains of Sumer, the uncontrollable water supply forced them to invent this.
What is a complex irrigation system?
Who was at the top of the social structure in Sumer?
Who are the kings, priests, nobles, and government officials?
The Akkadian empire fell after ________ years.
What is 200?
The Sumerians faced many challenges when settling Mesopotamia. This was the second challenge they faced and occured after they settled in the plains.
What is an uncontrollable water supply?
The Sumerians had a complex _________ religion, and they built ___________ as temples to honor their gods.
What is polytheistic and Ziggurats?
The irrigation system was not perfect. The people of Sumer had to ____________________ to solve _____________________.
What is work together and clogged irrigation system (silt clogged the canals).
This Bablyonian King conquered Sumer and created this important set of laws.
Who is Hammurabi and what is Hammurabi's Code?
This was difficult to find on the plains.
What are building materials?
What did they build to carry water to their fields?
Canals/Dams/Irrigation System
The people of Sumer began to fight over water rights, so they had to do this.
What is built systems of defenses around their city-state including building walls and moats.
Who was in the middle of the social structure of Ancient Sumer?
Who are artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers.
This empire only lasted for about 75 years. It is perhaps best known for this ancient wonder.
What is Neo-Bablyonia? What are The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
This was what the Sumerians used to write on, seeing as they had a lot of it.
What are clay tablets?
These two inventions helped the sumerians become better farmers.
What is the plow and the wheel?
These are the 4 problems of Ancient Sumer and their solutions.
What are food shortgaes and moving to the plains, uncontrolled water supply and irrigation system, canals clogging with silt and working together, cit-states fighting and building systems of defense?
This is why people followed the king. List 3 duties of a king in Sumer.
What is they believed he was chosen by the gods? What are overseeing the army, maintaining irrigation systems, overseeing the construction of ziggurats, enforcing laws, and collecting taxes.
This is the order the 4 empires of Mesopotamia were in power.