RELIGION
The belief in many gods.
Polytheism
They could read and write.
Boys
He was the first emperor
Sargon
A writing system that uses wedge-shaped marks
Cuneiform
A cart pulled by horses, used in military.
Chariot
A temple at the center of every city-state.
A ziggurat
Number of social classes
Three (3)
Number of years that Sargon was a ruler
A person who writes out documents.
A scribe
The two most important crops
Wheat and barley
The only people allowed into a temple
The priests
Members of the high social class.
Kings, priests and warriors.
A type of government where the ruler gets the power from a parent
Monarchy
A long poem about a legendary hero
An epic
Name two Sumerian inventions
The wheel, the potter's wheel, calendar, chariot
Things that you could offer the gods as gifts
Food and clothing
Members of the lowest social class.
Slaves
A sequence of rulers from the same family
Dynasty
The name of the most famous hero
Gilgamesh
A system that uses canals to take water to dry places
Irrigation
The reason why ziggurats were so high
To be closer to the gods
The largest social class
The middle class
Reasons why Sumerian city-states were conquered by Sargon.
His army was very good and the Sumerian city-states were fighting each other.
The material that Sumerians used for writing
Clay tablets
A road that is used by traders to take goods from one place to another
Trade route