Religion
An ancient Mespotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top.
What is a Ziggurat?
Sumerian soldiers traveled by foot and by these wheeled vehicles pulled by horses.
What are chariots?
Each Mesopotamian city was ruled by this type of leader.
What is a powerful king?
This city was an important trading city in Sumer, now in Iraq.
What is Ur?
A structured that has 2 sides, one side is war and one side is peace.
What is The Standard of Ur?
A characteristic of civilization that includes beliefs and behaviors of a society or a group of people.
What is culture?
These military innovations helped Sumerians fight battles.
What are helmets, cloaks, and bronze axes?
These two rulers made the city rich and great for culture and learning.
Who are Ur-Nammu and Shulgi?
A person who writes on clay tablets.
What is a scribe?
Writing that uses wedge-shaped characters and is one of the earliest ways to write.
What is a Cuneiform?
A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure.
What is a civilization?
He was the first leader in the empire and took control of the huge army.
What is Sargon?
These set of laws were carved on a stone pillar for everyone to see.
What are Hammurabi's Laws?
A person who makes money and selling goods.
What is a merchant?
A fragment of a bowl is decorated with a sculpture of a bull.
What is a Sumerian bowl?
The name of the Mesopotamian Moon God.
What is Nanna?
After 200 years, the empire was destroyed by a group of tribes.
What is a Gutian Tribesmen?
This was the important secular leader in the Mesopotamian Governments.
What is the lugal?
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.
What is technology?
It was a wooden instrument made of a sound box and strings.
What is a lyre?
People in Ur warshipped Babylonian's god, major gods and minor gods.
What is Polytheism?
Sumer was invaded by the Amorites, and later became this land.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
This activity which was a critical source of food and other resources was also a big part in Mesopotamian Governments.
What is farming?
This was the most important Sumerian invention.
What is the wheel?
People drew simple pictures of the objects they wanted to record.
What are pictograms?