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Fertile Crescent
All About Sumer
Kings and Priests
Development of Writing
The First Empires
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An area made up of a city and surrounding land and villages that it controls.
What is a city-state?
100
Large temples used to worship the gods.
What are ziggurats?
100
The Sumerians invented this science to help know when to plant their crops.
What is astronomy?
100
People who last modified the Egyptian alphabet into its present state.
Who are the Romans?
100
Conquered Sumer and northern Mesopotamia to form a new Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The first great Sumerian city.
What is Uruk.
200
______________ supported the Sumerian social class system.
What is government?
200
The application of human intelligence to problems to create new and better ways of doing things.
What is technology?
200
A small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound.
What is an alphabet?
200
People without civilization.
What are barbarians?
300
Advances in agricultural techniques used by Mesopotamians.
What are the plow and irrigation?
300
These people created religious ceremonies together to maintain their power.
Who are priests and kings?
300
A written set of laws.
What is a law code?
300
Pictures that represent objects.
What are pictographs?
300
A group of countries or peoples who are ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
400
A system for watering crops.
What is irrigation?
400
A person trained to write and keep records in ancient times.
What is a scribe?
400
Worked together to create religious festivals.
Who are kings and priests?
400
This civilization developed a written language to survive.
Who are the Mayans?
400
The success of Sargon's conquests are largely attributed to these.
What are chariots?
500
The two main rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
500
The worship of more than one god.
What is polytheism?
500
A government headed by a king.
What is kingship.
500
Written language of Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
500
Created the first Mesopotamian empire.
Who is Sargon?