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Mesopotamia
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100
What is a way of supplying water to an area of land?
What is irrigation?
100
The Sumerians had great skills in this science of building. What is this science called?
What is architecture?
100
A division of society by rank or class is called what?
What is a social hierarchy?
100
What is one of the most important technical development of Sumer?
What is the wheel?
100
What is the quality, production of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance?
What is the Arts?
200
Mesopotamians dug human-made waterways that connected these basins to a network of ditches.
What is canals?
200
City centers were dominated by their temples. This pyramid-shaped temple tower rose above the city. What is this temple tower called?
What is a ziggarat?
200
The kings of Sumer claimed they had been chosen to rule by who?
What is the gods?
200
The world's first writing system made up of wedged-shaped symbols on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
200
A set of spiritual belieffs, values, and practices/
What is religion?
300
Irrigation increaased the amount of food farmers were able to grow.
What is a stable food supply?
300
A stringed musical instrument.
What is a lyre?
300
Because of their status these people were just below kings in the social hierarchy.
What is priests?
300
Farming was the principal activity. What invention was important to the Sumerians?
What is the plow?
300
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks that would clog up an irrigation system.
What is silt?
400
The region of rich farmlands between Asia Minor and the Persian Gulf.
What is the Fertile Cresent?
400
Stone cylinder engraved with designs that when rolled over clay, the designs would leave behind their imprint. Each seal left its own distinct imprint. People would use this item to "sign" documents.
What is a cylinder seal?
400
Trade had a great impact on Sumerian society so craftpeople, merchants, and traders were below the priests in the social hierarchy. Below traders a group of people made up the large working class. Who is this group of people?
Who are farmers and laborers?
400
What were two early uses of the wheel?
What is wheeled vehicles and the potter's wheel?
400
The way a socoety or civilization is organized.
What is a social structure?
500
Mesopotamia mean "between the rivers." What rivers did Mesopotamia develop?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
Music was illegal in Sumer. True or False
What is false?
500
This group of people were at the bottom of the social order. Who are these people?
What is slaves?
500
What Sumerian advance in mathematics do we use every day when we look at a calendar?
What is a calendar divided into 12 months?
500
A symbol that stands for an object.
What is a pictograph?