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Inventions
Writing
Characteristics of Civilization
Religion
Grab Bag
100
Carts & chariots benefited from this Sumerian invention...
What is "the wheel"
100
This writing system was based on symbols representing products made on tablets or tokens, was mostly used to keep track of business…
What is Pictographs
100
Our acronym to remember the characteristics of civilization…
What is Seventh Graders Can Rule The World
100
These large, stair-stepped temples were built across Mesopotamia…
What are Ziggurats
100
This means “more than you need”…
What is a Surplus
200
This Sumerian invention is still used today to shape clay…
What is the Potter’s wheel
200
This writing system allowed Sumerians to keep track or more information, and is known for its wedge-shaped symbols…
What is Cuneiform
200
The seven characteristics that our acronym stand for are…
What are Specialization, Government, Cities, Religion, Trade/Technology, and Written Records
200
The temples were built to resemble mountains because Mesopotamians believed their gods…
What is Lived in high places
200
The name Mesopotamia means…
What is "Land between the Rivers"
300
This invention, which could be used by humans or pulled by an animal, helped farmers break up hard dirt…
What is The Plow
300
The writing system developed in Sumer had approximately this many symbols…
What is 600
300
Exchanging extra goods that you have for something that you need is an example of this characteristic…
What is Trade
300
Two systems that priests ran out of the temples were…
What are Irrigation and storage of grain
300
This city-state is known as the first civilization…
What is Sumer
400
This technology/invention allowed farmers water their fields more effectively…
What is Irrigation
400
Sumerians who specialized in writing were called…
What are Scribes
400
In Mesopotamia, priests, artisans, and merchants are an example of this characteristic…
What is Specialization
400
This term means “the belief in many gods or goddesses”…
What is Polytheism
400
This was built in Babylon to please a homesick Queen…
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
500
Sumerians created this by mixing copper and tin…
What is Bronze
500
The name of the writing instrument used in Sumer, a sharpened reed…
What is a Stylus
500
Priests led complex institutions in Sumer, which is an example of this characteristic…
What is Religion
500
Priests and kings were thought to have what type of relationship to the gods…
What is a direct connection
500
I created the first unified Code of Law…
Who was Hammurabi