General
The area where Mesopotamia was located in the middle east.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The belief in multiple gods.
What is Polytheism?
The god of heaven and the goddess of earth.
Who are An and Ki?
The form of writing invented by the Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?
The mother goddess.
Who is Nammu?
The three rivers in the fertile crescent.
What is the Nile River, the Tigris River, the Euphrates River?
A large temple in the center of a city-state, shaped like a step-pyramid with a flat top.
What is a Ziggurat?
The god of air and storms who had a tablet that told the future.
Who is Enlil?
The cart like Sumerian invention that would be used in military parades and is pulled by horses.
What is a chariot?
The most famous King from Sumer who is the subject of one of the oldest surviving works of literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
What is a city-state?
The Ziggurat that is dedicated to the god Nanna.
What is the Great Ziggurat of Ur?
The goddess of love and war whose symbols were an eight pointed star and lions.
Who is Inanna?
The two things the Sumerians learned to mass produce.
What are pottery and bricks?
The god of the moon whose symbols were the moon, bulls, and lion-dragons.
Who is Nanna?
What the Sumerians called their land, meaning Country of the Noble Lords.
What is Kengir?
What are cosmic births?
The god of the sun.
Who is Utu?
The piece of farm equipment invented by the Sumerians that tills the soil.
What is the plough?
TRUE or FALSE: The Sumerians invented the wheel.
FALSE
The three titles the Rulers of Sumer would go by.
What is Lugal, En, and Ensi?
The place where all mortals went when they died where they could only eat dry dust.
What is Kur?
The god of water, art, and science who filled the rivers with fish.
Who is Enki?
The process of moving water from the source to farm land and other places.
What is Hydraulic Engineering/ Irrigation?
The year when Sumerians were officially wiped out.
What is 1750 BCE?