Why Were River Valleys So Important?/The Rise of Sumer
What Were City-States?
Gods and Rulers
What Was Life Like in Sumer?/Education Past and Present/Sargon and Hammurabi
100
Complex societies that have cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions and a writing systems
What are civilizations
100
One reason why the first civilizations arose in river valleys was.........
What is
Good farming conditions made it easy to feed large numbers of people.
or
The rivers made it easy to get from place to place and trade.
100
The earliest civilization arose in what is now ___________________________.
What is Southern Iraq. ( I will accept Iraq)
100
For protection each city state surrounded itself with a _____________.
What is a wall.
100
Sargon was the king of the ___________________.
In 2340 B.C. Sargon conquored all of Mesopotamia and he set up the world's first ______________. Sargon's empire lasted for more than ___________years
What is
Akkadians
empire
200
200
Building dams, channels and waterways, or digging ditches, to control seasonal floods and bring water to the crops is......
What is irrigation
200
As cities took shape, someone had to make plans and decisions about matters of common concern. People formed _______________to do this.
What is governments.
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia are called the _____________________and __________________rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
200
Sumerians used ____________and ____________as their main building material
What are mud and crushed reeds.
200
Sumerian Kings lived in ______________and ordinary people lived in ____________________.
What are palaces and mud-brick houses.
300
Each Sumerian City and the land around it is called.....
What is a city-state
300
Due to the fact that people had fewer worries about meeting their basic needs now that they lived in Mesopotamia's fertile crescent they developed _________and _____________.
What is art and religion.
300
The Sumerian cities were isolated from each other by geography. Beyond the areas of settlement lay ________________ and patches of scorching_____________.
What are mudflats and scorching desert.
300
Sumerians believed in many gods. Each one was thought to have power over _______________or _________________.
What are natural forces or human activities.
300
Three of the goods people traded in sumer were_________________, ____________________, and __________________.
What is (three of any of these answers will do)
tools, wheat or barley
for
copper, tin and timber
400
Writing that consists of hundreds of wedge shaped marks cut into clay is ___________________and the person who would use the marks to record business is called a ____________________________
What is cuneifom and scribe
400
To pass on information and keep track of buisness records the Sumarians created___________.
What is writing.
400
This terrain of mudflats and scorching desert made _______________and _________________difficult.
What are travel and communication.
400
The Sumerians tried hard to please the gods. So they built a grand temple called a____________.
What is Ziggurat
400
In the Mesopotamia only _____________from ___________families learned how to write.
What is boys, wealthy families.
500
Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth or pottery.
Who are artisans
500
People in early civilizations held different places in society depending on what work they did and how much wealth and power they had. These were called_____________________.
What are class divisions.
500
Sumerian city-states often went to war with one another. They fought to gain ___________ and to control more _______________.
What are glory and territory.
500
Only the __________________and _______________could enter the Ziggurat.
What are priest and priestess.
500
Hammurabi became king because his father ________________died. He wanted to control the ____________________. His enemy was named _________________He was directly involved in the ______________of his kingdom. He created laws called Hammurabi's _________________.
What are:
Sinmuballit
Euphrates River
Rim-Sin of Larsa (I will accept Rim Sin)
ruling
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