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100
A language that was formed around 2400 B.C.
What is cuneiform?
100
The English translation of the word Mesopotamia.
What is "The land between two rivers."
100
These people were in charge of the city-states and made all important decisions.
Who were the kings?
100
This bright blue stone was commonly used to craft jewelry.
What is lapis lazuli?
200
These strategies were used to teach children how to write.
What are riddles and proverbs?
200
The year that Sumer was destroyed.
What is 2004 B.C.?
200
These people wrote all important documents.
Who were the scribes (dubsars)?
200
This one inch object was used as a mark of ownership by the Sumerians.
What is a cylinder seal?
300
These two materials were used in making objects for writing.
What are clay and reeds?
300
Sumerians were of this physical build.
What is short and fat?
300
These types of people were in the Amelu class but were not the king.
Who are priests, judges, government officials, and military officers?
300
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh embraced these two objects in his dreams.
What were the axe and the meteorite?
400
The reason writing evolved.
What is finding a way to keep a record of things and pass down values?
400
The earliest Sumerian city-states were founded around this year.
What is 3000 B.C.?
400
These are the types of societies that came before city-states.
What are bands, segmentary societies and chiefdoms?
400
This god from the Epic of Gilgamesh created Enkidu.
Who is Annu?
500
This person wrote important documents about the gods.
Who are scribes?
500
The Sumerians had noses shaped like this.
What is thin and straight?
500
This god gave the people Hammurabi's Code.
Who is Shamash?
500
The two sides of the Standard of Ur depict these two aspects of Mesopotamian life.
What is war and peace?