Vocabulary
Define surplus.
What is Extra?
The two inventions that were key to the success of trade.
The place they worshiped their god.
What is a ziggurat?
The cost of hitting a man with same ranking.
What is paying 1 gold mina?
What are slaves?
Define the term commodity.
What is a valuable product?
The first writing system name.
What is the cuneiform?
The place Sumerians go after Death.
What is the dead goes to the Land of No Return?
The cost of being a male who wants to separate from their wife.
What is giving the dowry back to his wife? (Pay back money)
What is the second ranking in social classes?
What are farmers/merchants?
Define irrigation.
The invention that they use to write on.
What are clay tablets?
The belief of how Sumerian Gods acted.
What is human like, immortal, and powerful?
The cost of being a female and wanting to leave your husband, but the husband wont let you leave.
What is being a servant?
The fourth ranking in the social class.
What are nobles?
Define cultural diffusion.
What is the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one person to another?
The first people to invent the sailboat, plow, and the wheel.
What is the Sumerians?
The belief of many gods.
What is polytheistic?
The cost of hitting a man above ranking.
What is 60 blows with and ox-whip in public?
The three middle class in social classes.
What are scribes, merchants, and artisans?
Define the term Ideogram
What is a symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word?
What is the wheel?
The number of gods the Sumerians believed existed.
What is seven?
What is 282 laws?
What is the king?