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Between Two Rivers
Sumerian City-States
Achievements
Daily Life
The First Empire
100
The two rivers that formed the river system for Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
This included a walled city and the land around it. Like a fief in Europe.
What is a city-state?
100
An early discovery that allowed for farmers to cut up the ground.
What is the plow?
100
These homes were constructed near the Ziggurat.
What are royal or priest homes?
100
He created 282 laws.
What is Hammurabi?
200
These flow into larger rivers.
What are tributaries?
200
A governing system ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
200
This was invented so that farmers could better conduct trade - without guessing amounts.
What are standard measurements?
200
The social class of: doctors, scribes, and priests.
What is the high social class?
200
These people performed a 'hit-and-run' in Mesopotamia. They looted some cities, but didn't stay long after Babylon fell.
What are the Hittites?
300
A part of Mesopotamia on a plateau.
What is Northern Mesopotamia?
300
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
The largest and tallest building in a city-state.
What is the Ziggurat?
300
Carpenters built these to carry goods up and down the Euphrates river.
What are boats?
300
A permanent army of paid soldiers.
What is a standing army?
400
The layer formed as a result of flooding on an alluvial plain.
What is silt?
400
This enabled some Sumerians to perform work other than farming.
What is a surplus?
400
The greatest Sumerian achievement.
What is the Cuneiform?
400
Sumerians worshiped these - some call them gods, others call them _____________.
What are deities?
400
The first emperor.
Who is Sargon?
500
A culture known for their farming, pottery, and irrigation systems.
What are the Ubaid?
500
Here they discovered 4500 years old Sumerian tombs.
What is the Royal Cemetary of Ur?
500
Controlling the information meant power.
What are scribes?
500
These people had more rights and freedoms in Sumeria than they would have had in other ancient civilizations.
What are women?
500
One of the seven wonders of the world constructed during the New Babylonian Empire.
What is the Hanging Gardens?