Vocab
Sumerian Temple
Ziggurat
breaks up hard dirt or land
plow
ancient Sumerian writing
cunieform
Ancient Sumerian writer and reader
scribe
study of many gods
polytheism
Copper and Tin
Bronze
circular and made moving objects easier
wheel
Sumerians wrote on this...
Clay tablet
a person who was in charge and spoke to the gods
priest
True or False-Slaves could buy their own freedom
True
Left-over or Excess
Surplus
canals that brought water to crops
irrigation
ancient wooden stick used for writing on clay
stylus
another word for barter
trade
a political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmlands
city-state
Land between two rivers
Mesopotamia
Sumerians invented a yearly.....
calendar
a picture or drawing that represents a word or an idea
pictograph
most people had this job in ancient Sumer
farmer
True or False-Woman could not own land.
False
a society with an advanced level of development
Civilization
base 60, 60 seconds, 360 degrees-Sumerians invented this
Mathmatics
on king had this number of clay tablets
24,000
jewelry maker, carpenter, potter-you were called a..
artisan
. an area of rich soil in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf
Fertile Cresent