Vocabulary #1
A person who writes
What is a Scribe
Writing that uses wedge shape-shaped characters
What is Cuneiform
Written records of the goods people exchanged were made on?
What is clay tablets
Which invention added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings?
What is Arches
The small, mud-brick houses at the edge of the city were the homes of
What is farmers
The way a civilization is organized
What is Social Structure
A society that has enough food for its people.
What is Stable Food Supply
A blue stone called lapis lazuli, came from far beyond the Zagros Mountains. This shows that the city-states of Sumer engaged in?
What is trade
Which inventions most affected the food supply in Sumer?
What is the plow
A ziggurat is a feature for which characteristic for the Sumerian civilization?
What is religion
The creation of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
What is technology
A craftsperson who creates pottery or sculpture
Who is an artisan
What was the main purpose of these items?
Drums, Lyres, and Pipes
What is Entertainment
Who wrote down the laws for the Sumerian government?
Who were scribes
Who had the responsibility of enforcing the laws and having temples built?
Who is the king
A person who makes money by selling goods
Who is a merchant
What brought joy to the people and the gods
What is art and music
What did Sumerians use to produce cuneiform on a clay tablet?
What is a wedge-shaped stylus
Which invention made it possible for Sumerian armies to use chariots?
What is the wheel
Which ancient Sumerian was most likely to live in a two-story house near the center of the city?
What is a government official
An ancient Mesopotamia temple over with outside staircases and a shrine at the top
What is a Ziggurat
What are stable food supply, social structure, system of government, religious system, highly developed way of life: arts, technology, and written language?
What are characteristics of a civilization for ancient Sumer?
What evidence shows that the Sumerians lived after the Stone Age?
Paleolithic = hunters
Neolithic = farmers
What is the use of metals
Copper for jewelry
Bronze for sculptures
What evidence found by archaeologists shows that Sumerians were not prehistoric?
What is a written language
What Sumerian belief about the king helped to strengthen the social order?
What is He was chosen by the Gods