A city and all the countryside around it. Give 2 descriptive details about it
What is a city-state. Answers will vary.
100
The world's first system of writing. Tool used to make the marks.
What is cuneiform and stylus
100
Person who kept track of items people traded.
What is a scribe?
200
The word that means "between the two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
200
City and countryside.
What is urban and rural?
200
The worship of many gods. Name 2 gods and their power.
What is polytheism
200
Picture symbols. * in 3,300 BC.
What is pictograph and heaven?
200
This person with the help of another, searched and slayed the monster Humbaba.
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
A ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
300
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes.
What is an epic?
300
Place the following in social hierarchy from high to low: laborers, skilled craftspeople, kings, farmers, priests, traders, slaves, and merchants.
What is kings, priests, skilled craftspeople, merchants, traders, farmers, laborers, and slaves.
300
Small objects rolled over clay to leave a distinct imprint.
What is a cylinder seal?
300
The great war leader who came up with a set of laws to follow. He ruled for how many years?
Who was Hammurabi, ruling for 42 years?
400
A pyramid shaped temple tower.
What is a ziggurat?
400
A set of 28 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
What is Hummurabi's Code?
400
Men and woman's jobs in Sumer.
What are political powers and made laws; took care of the home and children.
400
The math system is based on this number. They related it to two ideas we use now.
What is the number 60? What is dividing a circle into 360 degrees and calendar into 12 months?
400
One of the first military leaders to use soldiers armed with bows and arrows.
Who is Sargon?
500
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life. Name on of the laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code. Answers will vary.
500
A pyramid shaped temple tower.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The city-state of UR were know for these 3 things.
What is Giant temple dedicated to Nanna, crops like wheat and barley, connected by canal to Euphrates river, contained canal and harbor inside city wall, massive walls, maze of houses and shops.
500
Tell an area of life improved by Sumerian invention. Say invention and how it improved, give details!
What is (answers will vary, teacher awards points).
500
Group of people whose king ruled through local leaders who enforced laws, collected taxes, and punished any resistance to their rule very harshly.