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Development of City States
Sumerian Civilzation
Technology
Geography
Sumer-Mix!
100
Land between two rivers
What does the name 'Mesopotamia' mean?
100
Plow and irrigation
How did the Sumerians ensure they had a stable food supply?
100
Wheel
What is the most important Sumerian invention?
100
Tigris & Euphrates
What two rivers run through Mesopotamia?
100
Levee
What name is given to a bank built along the edge of a river to prevent flooding?
200
Iraq, Kuwait & Syria
Which modern countries occupy the land once known as Mesopotamia?
200
King
How was at the top of the Sumerian social structure?
200
Pottery
What did the Sumerians first use the wheel to make?
200
Zagros Mountains
What range of mountains lies to the east of Sumer?
200
By 3,000 BCE
When did the Sumerian city-states develop?
300
Overpopulation
What problem caused food shortages in the Zagros mountains in 5,000 B.C.E.?
300
Governors
Who helped the king enforce laws, collect taxes, and patrol the irrigation system?
300
Clay and straw
What did the Sumerians use to mass produce bricks?
300
Persian Gulf
What body of water do the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers flow into?
300
Ur, Lagash, and Uruk.
What are the names of some important Sumerian city-states?
400
Irrigation
How did the Sumerians control the unreliable water supply on the plains?
400
Ziggurats
What was a Sumerian religious temple called?
400
Pictographs
What type of early writing did cuneiform evolve from?
400
Taurus Mountains
Which mountain range lies to the north of Mesopotamia?
400
Lapis lazuli
What blue semi-precious stone was valued by the Sumerians, and used to decorate the Standard of Ur?
500
Ancient city of Ur
What is the name the famous city-state excavated by Leonard Woolley in 1922?
500
Lyre
What is the name of a stringed Sumerian instrument similar to a harp?
500
60
What number did the Sumerians base their math on?
500
Mediterranean Sea
Which sea borders the west of the Fertile Crescent?
500
Polytheism
What do we call a religion that worships many gods & goddesses?