Vocabulary
What was the reason for ziggurats?
religious purposes.
Where is sumer located?
Mesopotamia.
When was Sumer made?
5,300 B.C.
What is a city state?
It is an independent city that shares a common language.
Sumerians made bronze out of _____ and ______?
Tin and copper.
What was the purpose of division of labor?
So that everyone can have a job and contribute to society.
What two rivers is sumer by?
Tigris and Euphrates.
When was cuneiform invented?
3,100 B.C.
People specialized in ______, _____, _____, _____, _____, and _____?
God.
Sumerians made _____ to keep track of trades?
What is Cuneiform.
What is agriculture?
The domestication of plants and animals for survival purposes.
What mountain is near sumer?
Zagros.
When did the Sumerians control flooding problems?
3,500 B.C.
Each city state needed to communicate because _____?
They needed to communicate because of trade.
Sumerians made ______ out of 60 to measure time.
A number system.
What were the purposes of levees?
To divert water to where you want.
What is the closest desert to Sumer?
Arabian desert.
How long did Sumer last?
3,000 years.
Ensis lead _____, _____, _____, and _____
Military, court, trade, and religious ceremonies.
Sumerians made _____ for carts.
A wheel.
Mesopotamia translates to _________
A "land between two rivers"
What body of water did the two river that pass by Sumer lead into?
The Persian Gulf.
People started to work which lead to _______?
The rise of cities.
People specialized in ______, _____, _____, _____, _____, and _____?
Pot making, metal working, backing, weaving, building, and sculpting.
Sumerians measured a circle as ______o ?
360.