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Sumerians
Babylonians
Assyrians
Chaldeans
Persians
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Most Sumerians lived in these.

one-story houses

100
Sumerians divided the year into these periods still used today.
What are 12 months?
100
A machine that broke through the hard clay soil of Sumer to prepare it for planting.
What is a plow?
100
Written works such as poems and plays. Sumerians did this well.
What is writing?
100
Sumerians like recent residents of Corilliam House love to wear this fashionable item.
What is jewelry?
200

The largest and most impressive building in Sumer.

What are city centers?

200
Sumerians calculated the areas of these shapes.
What are rectangles and triangles?
200
A device that spins clay as a craftsperson shapes it into bowls.
What is a potter's wheel?
200
A person who writes stories or poems.
What is a scribe?
200
People could use these to "sign" documents or decorate other clay objects.
What are cylinder seals?
300

Temples where Sumerians prayed.

Ziggurats?

300
Two examples of wheeled vehicles that the Sumerians were the first people to invent.
What are carts and wagons?
300
The first system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
300
Known for its quantity than quality.
What is Sumerian pottery?
400

Sumerians divided a circle into _____degrees.

 360 degress

400
The first math system was based on this number.
What is 60?
400
This object made vehicles possible.
What is the wheel?
400
Long stories or poems.
What are epics?
400
Sumer's most famous works of art.
What are cylinder seals?
500
Most Sumerian rulers lived in these.
What are palaces?
500
Sumerians wrote long lists to _____their study of the natural world.
What is record?
500
One of Sumerian's most important developments.
What is the wheel?
500
Pictures or symbols used for writing.
What are pictographs?
500
Sumerian artists sculpted small objects out of these two materials.
What are ivory and rare woods?