Geography
Fine soil deposited by rivers
Silt
Sumer
A Sumerian temple
Ziggurat
These two positions made up the top of the upper class of Sumer
Kings and Priests
A mixture of copper and tin used to make tools stronger
Bronze
Time period when not enough rain and snow fall
drought
These locations had large temples & offered many different types of work
Advanced Cities
The lowest class of people in Sumer was made up of these people
Slaves
A belief in many gods and goddesses
Polytheism
The Sumerian number system was based on this number
60
System that carries water from the rivers to the fields
Irrigation
Keeping track of important things by writing them down
Record Keeping
This was the main role for most women
These Sumerian leaders worked to please the gods.
Priests
Historians believe Sumerians may have invented which two tools which helped them in their daily lives
Plow and Wheel
More than you need for yourself to survive
Surplus
A community that included a city and its nearby farmlands
City-state
Means "picture writing"
Pictographs
This group controlled most of the wealth in a Sumerian city-state
Priests
These were professional record keepers
Scribes
The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia
Tigris & Euphrates
This was the hometown of Abraham; an important person in all three of the most popular world religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Ur
A complex wedge-shaped writing system
Cuneiform
This leader led the city-states during wars but eventually took over power full-time from the priests
Kings
Sumerians used arithmetic to keep records of what items?
Crops and Trade goods