Characteristics of Civilization
What is a civilization?
A society with developed arts, sciences and government.
What was a tool that Sumerians developed to create a stable food supply?
What is the plow or irrigation system?
Who is a person who sells good to make money and appears in the middle of the social pyramid?
Who is a merchant?
Sumerians wanted to obey the will of the....
Who are the gods?
What is the form of writing invented by Sumerians?
What is cuneiform?
How did Sumer influence life today?
What is invented the plow, the wheel, and a written language?
Name at least 3 parts of a Sumerian irrigation system that supported a stable food supply.
What are dams, reservoirs, levees, and canals?
Who was at the top class of social structure in Sumer?
Who are the government officials and priests?
Who is an artisan?
Who is a craftsperson (ex. metalworking)?
What was one job of a scribe?
What is to write down the laws, record grain, and record government information (like the census)?
What is culture?
What is the beliefs and behaviors of a society (ex. types of houses people live in, creative forms of expression)?
Why did Sumerian villages depend on on each other?
What is that they cooperated to keep their irrigation systems working and cleared of silt?
What is the term for when people in a civilization have different social levels and jobs?
What is a social structure?
Which invention added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings?
What are arches?
Which invention made it possible for Sumerian armies to use chariots?
What are wheels?
Name the seven hallmarks of a civilization.
What is a stable food supply, social structure, system of government, religion, the arts, technology, and writing?
What did farmers use to pull the plow?
What are oxen?
Name two of the responsibilities of the king.
What are lead the army, enforce the laws, have temples built?
What were records of the goods people exchanged made on?
What are clay tablets?
What evidence found by archaeologists shows that Sumerians were not prehistoric?
What are written records?
How did the Neolithic Age lead to the first hallmark of civilization?
What is that it was the start of agriculture, or a stable food supply?
Connect the artifact of a golden cup to a stable food supply.
What is a stable food supply = permanent shelters = communities = division of labor = artisans OR upper class used at banquets; can only happen with a stable food supply?
Which Sumerian belief about the king helped strengthen the social order?
What is that he was chosen by the gods?
Name 2 ways that Sumerians expressed their religious beliefs.
What is building temples and ziggurats, creating statues, and participating in religious ceremonies?
What did Sumerians use to produce cuneiform?
What is a wedged-shaped stylus?