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Vocab.
Sumer
Science/Tech.
The Land
Society/Gov.
100
This is the belief in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
100
This is the most important structure in a Sumerian city.
What is a ziggurat?
100
This is how the plow improved the lives of Sumerians.
What is helped Sumerian farmers break up soil, which made planting easier?
100
This is the system of canals that Mesopotamia set up to get water from the rivers to their fields.
What is irrigation?
100
Sumerians were able to settle in villages because they were able to do this.
What is farm?
200
This is having more than is needed of oneself.
What is surplus?
200
Sumerians were among the first people to make tools of this material.
What is bronze?
200
This is how the wheel improved the lives of Sumerians.
What is they used the wheel on wagons to help move goods more easily and the wagons helped farmers take their crops to market more easily?
200
Mesopotamians used this to make bricks and plaster.
What is mud?
200
This is a community that included a city and its nearby lands.
What is a city-state?
300
This is a person who specialized in writing.
What is a scribe?
300
These people made up the top of the upper class of Sumer.
What is kings/priests?
300
This is how the potter's wheel helped the lives of Sumerians.
What is it helped Sumerians make pottery faster which they used the pots to hold their surplus of food so it didn't go bad?
300
This is why Mesopotamia was easy to invade.
What is Mesopotamia had few mountains or other barriers?
300
This is how many gods Sumerians believed in.
What is four main gods?
400
This is an advanced form of culture.
What is a civilization?
400
These five traits helped to make Sumer the world's first civilization.
What is advanced cities, workers with specialized jobs, institutions (government/religion), a way of keeping records and advanced technology?
400
This is why bronze was so important to Sumerians.
What is it made tools stronger so they lasted longer?
400
Mesopotamians traded this crop for stone and wood because they had a surplus of it.
What is grain?
400
The land a king ruled was called this.
What is a kingdom?
500
This is a period when not enough rain/snow falls.
What is a drought?
500
This is why scribes were respected by Sumerians.
What is there were only a few people that were able to read and write; therefore, they were the professional record keepers for the civilization?
500
Sumerians used this to keep records of crops and trade goods.
What is arithmetic?
500
This is a fine soil that was deposited by rivers and caused the soil in Mesopotamia to be very fertile.
What is silt?
500
These people made up the lowest class in Sumer.
What are slaves?