Geography
Sumer (Culture 1)
Writing & Culture (Culture 1 and 2)
Politics (Culture 2)
Grab Bag!
100
an area of higher flat land
What is a plateau?
100
The direction of Mesoptamia where Sumer was
Hint: North, South, East, or West
What is south?
100
True or False: Everyone in Mesopotamia was allowed to learn to write
What is False?
100
What Sumerians lived in
What are city-states?
100
A shape that looks like a quarter moon
What is a crescent?
200
long period of dry weather
What is a drought?
200
One of the three inventions of Sumerians
What is wheeled vehicles, pottery wheels or writing?
200
The name of the special job of writers
What is a scribe?
200
Another word for a rule
What is a law?
200
a type of temple
What is a ziggurat?
300
a long area of low land between mountains and hills
What is a valley?
300
True or False: Sumerians wanted to be independent
What is True?
300
One of the three types of buildings every city-state in Mesopotamia had
What is: gate and walls, king's palace or ziggurat?
300
The name of the empire formed around the city-state Babylon
What is Babylonia?
300
a mixture of tiny bits of rock and dirt
What is silt?
400
Mesopotamia was where this country is today
What is Iraq?
400
Sumer was a group of these
What are cities or city-states?
400
The type of religion Sumerians believed in
What is polytheism?
400
Babylonia's famous king Hammurabi invented this to tell his people the rules
What is a code of law?
400
One of the famous laws that said if someone did something bad to you, the same bad thing should be done to them
What is "an eye for an eye"?
500
The two rivers that Mesopotamia was between
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
500
The reason why people in Sumer could live as skilled workers
What is a surplus of crops?
500
The name of this written language AND what it was written on
What is cuneiform on clay tablets?
500
The name of the first king of Sumer
Who is Sargon?
500
This skill allowed the people of Mesopotamia to live in city-states and specialize in different skills
What is farming or agriculture?