Geography
Religion
Sumerian Society
Farming
Inventions
100
Mesopotamia means this.
What is land between two rivers?
100
The people of Mesopotamia were this because they believed in many gods.
What were polytheists?
100
This group of people made up the lowest class of Sumerian society.
What were slaves?
100
This is the flat land near the banks of the rivers.
What is the floodplain?
100
A picture or drawing that represents a word or an idea.
What is a pictograph?
200
Mesopotamia is near this gulf.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
This was the largest most important structure in a Sumerian city.
What was the ziggurat?
200
In addition to being priestesses, artisans, and merchants, free women could own this.
What was land?
200
Mesopotamia had this type of climate in which less than ten inches of rain fell per year.
What is semiarid?
200
First used in pottery, the Sumerians invented this, which was later used to transport goods.
What is the wheel?
300
These are the two rivers that flow in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
300
Priests ran these systems in Mesopotamia which resulted in them controlling much of the wealth.
What were the irrigation systems?
300
Kings and priests were at the top of this social class.
What was the upper class?
300
This fine soil was deposited by the rivers making the land very fertile.
What is silt?
300
Sumerian scribes used this tool to write wedge shaped characters.
What is a stylus?
400
This city state was the birthplace of Abraham.
What is Ur?
400
Once kings became the leaders of Sumerian city states, the priests still had this job.
What was to keep the gods happy?
400
Most slaves, a cheap source of labor, were acquired this way.
What was being taken as prisoners during war?
400
This is a period when not enough rain or snow fall.
What is a drought?
400
This simple invention could be pushed or pulled by people or animals to make planting easier.
What is the plow?
500
This is the country that occupies the land of Mesopotamia now.
What is Iraq?
500
The hardships of Sumerian life caused people to believe that the souls of the dead went here.
What was the land of no return or the underworld?
500
This famous Sumerian king is the subject of one of the oldest written histories.
Who is Gilgamesh?
500
Due to a lack of natural resources, Mesopotamian used this for building.
What is mud?
500
This Sumerian language contained about 600 characters.
What is cuneiform?