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Geography
Sumerian Firsts
Complex Society and People
Religion/Extra!
100
Mesopotamia is located in this present-day country.
What is Iraq?
100
This first really helps for movement (of vehicles)!
What is the wheel?
100
These divert(ed) water for irrigation.
What are levees?
100
How the Sumerians believed gods descended to earth.
What is by using the ziggurat as a ladder?
200
This is the eastern-most river of the two.
What is the Tigris River?
200
This first is great to have in the home!
What is plumbing?
200
This term is defined as the cultivation of plants and animals for food and other uses.
What is agriculture?
200
The Sumerians created these figures out of clay to represent this.
What is a figure of themselves praying?
300
This is the western-most river of the two.
What is the Euphrates River?
300
This first is based on the zodiac.
What is the calendar?
300
These terraced pyramids were built for their king-like figure (name him) and for whom?
What are ziggurats,ensi, and god/goddesses?
300
The girl scribe told us that her city-state god was the god of this.
What is wind?
400
These are the mountains whose snow melting contributed to flooding of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros Mountains.
400
This first came long before Mrs. Hall typed this game and what is the name of the Sumerians "marks". 2 parts
What is written language and cuneiform?
400
This is the term for the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
500
This desert is west of Mesopotamia and has a coastline along these two bodies of water. (three parts)
What is the Arabian Desert and what are the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates River?
500
This first is a metal created by combining ____________ and _______________.
What is bronze? What are tin + copper?
500
This is the basis of civilization, occurs with a surplus of this.
What is division of labor and food?
500
How may loaves of bread did we read were given daily to the god Anu? (within 20 loaves!!!!)
What is 243?