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Mesopotamia
Sumer Way of Life
Religion
Culture & Society
Inventions 2
100
Mesopotamia means this.
What is "land between rivers?"
100

This oldest work of known fiction dates back to the times of Abraham.

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

100
This was the main building in each Sumerian city.
What is a temple?
100

The name of Sumerian schools.

What are edubbas?

100
Sumerians invented this type of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
These are the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200

The biblical name of Mesopotamia.

What is the Plain of Shinar?

200
This was a pyramid-shaped temple with four sides.
What is a ziggurat?
200

Sumerians mathematics was based on this number.

What is the number 10?

200
The Sumerians used this sharp-pointed tool to write on the clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
300
This is another name for Mesopotamia.
What is the "Fertile Crescent?"
300
The Sumerians used these to irrigate the farmlands.
What are canals?
300
This was their way of offering a gift to a god. Sometimes, they used animals.
What is a sacrifice?
300

This number had a special significance in Sumerian mathematics.

What is 60?

300
They invented writing as a way to do this.
What is keep records?
400
This sea lies to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400

This word starting with a C refers to the way of life for a group of people.

What is culture?

400

Sumerians soon departed from this belief in one god.

What is monotheism?

400

The Sumerians divided the year into these types of months (based on the cycles of the moon).

What are lunar months?

400

The act of breeding, feeding, management and marketing of farm animals is called this.

What is animal husbandry?

500
Mesopotamia lies in what modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
500

The most important Sumerian industry was making these woolen cloths and garments.

What are textiles?

500

The belief that gods were nothing more than glorified immortal beings.

What is humanism?

500

Sumerian society was made of this amount of classes.

What are 4 classes?

500
The Sumerians were the first to put these on carts.
What are wheels?