Sumer Agriculture
A sediment of very fine particles containing rock and minerals that is found at the bottom of bodies of water
What is Silt?
A group of people in society with the same social position often determined by economic status.
What is Social Class?
What Sumer schools were known as
What is a Tablet-House?
Law given to Moses from God
What is the Mosaic Law?
Empire of the Amorites
What is the Babylonian Empire?
Sumerian Farmers were the first known people to use what this, which helped move heavy loads on a cart
What is a Wheel?
A person who's job is to record information in writing
What is a Scribe
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
Capital city of Assyrian Empire
What is Nineveh?
Social class made this code unjust
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
A way of supplying water to land or crops
What is Irrigation?
What is an epic?
Boys from wealthy families went to school to study and became this
What is a Scribe?
Largest Empire up to this point in History, whom God used to judge Israel
What is the Assyrian Empire?
Sumarian wooden box that was discovered by Sir Leonard Woolley
What is the Standard of Ur?
An amount that is more than what is needed
What is Surplus?
A pyramid-like temple
What are Ziggurats?
Considered as the god's highest representative on Earth
Who is the king?
Capital of the Chaldean Empire
What is Babylon?
City where was sent to preach
What is Nineveh?
How Sumer developed from farming settlements to city-states
Villages grew into cities because of surplus and job development
cities fostered culture
each city chose a way to govern
Wedged-shape writing
What is Cuneiform
Advances that were made math and science
Astronomy: Seasons and a Twelve month calendar
Math: First who developed the concept of zero
The man who established the Akkadian Empire
Who is Sargon I?
Wrote laws with no religious section
Who is Hammurabi?