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Vocabulary
Sumeria
Contributions
People
Later Empires
100
What is another way of saying way of life?
Culture
100
What is the name of the most well known early city in Sumerian?
Ur
100
What invention helped to get people around on carts?
Wheel
100
What was the name of the king who had one of the earliest stories told about him?
Gilgamesh
100
What number am I thinking of right now?
3248
200
What is another name for a temple to a god?
Ziggurat
200
What two rivers were the most important to Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
200
What was the name of the early form of writing that the Mesopotamians developed?
Cuneiform
200
The leaders of various city-states were called what?
Priest-kings
200
Who determined the guilt or innocence of a person accused of a crime?
Judge
300
What is a group of states under one ruler?
An empire
300
What did the different gods control?
Mesopotamia
300
What was the name of the invention that allowed people to farm more effectively?
Plow
300
What class lived in the center of the cities?
Rich
300
Sargon was the leader of what area?
Akkad
400
What is another way to say a period in power?
Reign
400
What could a man do if he was unhappy with his family?
Could be divorced and sold into slavery
400
What number is still used today regularly in everyday life and math that the Mesopotamians used?
60
400
Who is known for having one of the earliest law codes?
Hammurabi
400
What was the capital of the empire led by Hammurabi?
Babylon
500
What vocabulary word means passed down to child?
Hereditary
500
What two ways did the Mesopotamians use to control their rivers?
Levees and irrigation
500
What important travel innovation did the Mesopotamians create that helped them on their rivers?
Sailboat
500
What was the name of a person who was able to write and did that for a career in Mesopotamia?
Scribe
500
What two far away areas did the the Mesopotamians trade with?
China and India