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VOCABULARY
GEOGRAPHY
SOCIAL CLASSES
ACHIEVEMENTS
POT LUCK
100
"The land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The names of the two rivers that are in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100
They had been chosen by the gods to rule.
Who are the kings?
100
A form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
100
The invention of Sumerians that helped make the work of farming much easier and faster.
What is the plow?
200
The person in Sumer society who wrote down the laws and records.
What is the scribe?
200
The two rivers flowed into this large body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
They were the links between the Sumerians and the gods.
Who are the priests?
200
This was used for transportation.
What is the wheel?
200
The musical string instrument invented by the Sumerians that was like a small harp.
What is a lyre?
300
An independent community that has its own government, food supply, and god that it honors as its own.
What is a city-state?
300
This region refers to the large arc-shaped area near the rivers where the land was very good for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
They were in the upper class and lived in two-story houses in the center of the city and close to the ziggurat.
Who were priests, landowners and government officials.
300
This invention greatly increased production of food.
What is the plow?
300
The two problems that Sumerians encountered before they learned how to control the water supply.
What are floods and long periods of drought (no rain)?
400
A multi-story temple that Sumerians built to house and worship their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The modern-day country in the region where Mesopotamia was located.
What is Iraq?
400
They made up the large working class.
Who are farmers and laborers?
400
The system used to provide water to crops and avoid floods.
What is the irrigation system?
400
They chose the king and gave him his power.
Who are the gods?
500
The ancient form of writing invented in Sumer that began as pictographs and evolved into an alphabet.
What is cuneiform?
500
The issue or problem that led to people from different city-states working together.
What is the need to clean the irrigation system to keep it free from silt?
500
They were at the bottom of the social order.
Who are the slaves?
500
The way that food was controlled and distributed to people in Sumer.
What is the priests controlled and distributed it.
500
The person whose duty it was to build temples, lead the army, and enforce laws.
Who is the king?