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Jobs and Duties
Sumerian Achievements
Places in Mesopotamia
River Valley Civilizations
Gods
100
People that planted crops, provided a surplus in food and used a system for controlling floods.
What is Farmers!
100
The world's first system of writing.
What is cuneiform!
100
A large arc of rich fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent!
100
River travel helped early civilization to trade goods and ideas.
What is Natural Highways!
100
The lord of air.
What is Enlil.
200
A person who would write things on wet clay of what people traded.
What is a scribe!
200
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes.
What is an epic!
200
By 3000 BC hundreds of thousands of Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia, or what they call this.
What is Sumer!
200
Food surpluses allowed people to pursue in other activities, like crafts, art, and writing.
What is new activities!
200
The god of wisdom.
What is Enki.
300
This person would use various different ways to catch food in the water.
What is a Fisherman!
300
City centers were dominated by these pyramid shaped temples.
What is a ziggurat!
300
This city-state is one of the largest city-states in Mesopotamia and was a great trading center and port.
What is Ur!
300
River water was key to farming in early civilizations.
What is gifts of the river!
300
The sun god.
What is Utu.
400
The ruler of the city-state.
What is an Emperor!
400
A stringed musical instrument decorated with string and stone.
What is a lyre!
400
This river is in the eastern Taurus mountains, in southern Turkey, and is more north-eastern of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris river!
400
With the development of agriculture, people settled into farming villages.
What is from village to city.
400
The moon god.
What is Nanna.
500
The second spot in the social hierarchy. The one that conducts religious ceremonies.
What is the priests.
500
A wheeled, horse-drawn cart, used in battle.
What is a chariot!
500
This river is located on the city state of Ur, near the Persian Gulf, and south of Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River!
500
What two things made the soils nourished and fertile?
What is silt and flood deposits!
500
The religion that the Sumerians practiced. The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism.