Vocabulary
Fine particles of rock.
What is silt?
Primitive people counted using simple methods, such as putting notches on bones but it was the Sumerians who developed a formal numbering system.
What is mathematics?
This made people have greater status than others.
What is Social structure?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates river?
This came from conquering the Babylonians neighbors.
What is wealth?
A way to supply water.
What is irrigation?
The Sumerians were the first ones to use this in the war.
What is a wagon?
These things helped Sumer have a stable food supply.
What is plowing and irrigation?
This made planting and harvesting impossible for farmers.
What is flooding?
This was one of the early and powerful king who had a creative idea to build power.
Who is King Hammurabi?
A place in southern Mesopotamia, where first cities appeared.
Where is Sumer?
The pictograph evolved into symbols that stood for words and sounds.
What is writing?
The king ruled the Sumerians.
What is the government?
This helped bring water to their crops in time of drought and made water more predictable.
What are new forms of irrigation.
This helped the Babylonians to make their city successful and safe.
What are double walls and triple walls?
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.
What is Technology?
It is a vital technology in farming.
What is the plow?
Sumerians created paintings, architecture, and music as forms of expressions.
What is Art?
The rivers start in different places but they end up together.
Where is river delta?
The Babylonians were the first to build a giant planned city.
What is Metropolis?
A symbol that stands for an object.
What is pictograph?
Other ancient people made pottery by hand, but the Sumerians were the first to develop a turning wheel.
What is mass produced pottery?
Sumerians believed their gods had a lot of power.
What is religious system?
This part of the land was highly fertile.
What are the land between the rivers (Mesopotamia)
This made Babylonian the powerful capital of the empire.
What are strong leaders and new ways of organizing the government.